Search Results for: income inequality

This is one of the most complete compilation of data that illustrate what has been occurring in the United States for the last 30 years. It should give every American citizen pause. If this data does not break the indoctrination that the Right has had on many citizens then nothing will. I am of the […]

Forget all that you hear on FoxNews or even the Mainstream Media (TV, Radio, etc.). Nobody is addressing the biggest cancer in our society and that is the extreme inequality that is continuously getting worst. It is not enough to work yourself out of the lower classes upward  because the constant exponential growth that the […]

If this inequalities was proportional to the value each individual had to society or proportional to the work they provided to society one could live with this. However when we have policies that actually give preferential tax treatment to income from capital over income from wealth, or when wealth is being passed down without taxes […]

Did the United States grow more unequal while Republicans were in power? It sounds crude, but Princeton political scientist Larry Bartels has gone a long way toward proving it. Bartels looked up income growth rates for families at various income percentiles for the years 1948 to 2005, then cross-checked these with whether the president was […]

  For all the political and economic uncertainties about health reform, at least one thing seems clear: The bill that President Obama signed on Tuesday is the federal government’s biggest attack on economic inequality since inequality began rising more than three decades ago. Over most of that period, government policy and market forces have been […]