Inequality.org
网页2024年8月29日 · is your online portal to data, analysis, and commentary on income and wealth inequality. You'll find on these pages information and insights that can help you better understand our deeply unequal world — and how we can work to change it. Inequality.org comes to you as a project of the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Policy Studies.
Facts - Inequality.org
网页The Facts that Define Our Grand Divides. Inequality and Covid-19. Income Inequality. Wealth Inequality. Racial Economic Inequality. Global Inequality. Gender Economic Inequality. Inequality and Health. Inequality and Taxes.
Income Inequality - Inequality.org
网页Over the past five decades, the top 1 percent of American earners have nearly doubled their share of national income, according to figures in the World Inequality Database.Meanwhile, the Census Bureau’s “official” poverty rate for all U.S. families has merely inched up and down. In 2011, the Census Bureau began publishing a “supplemental” poverty measure that is more accurate but ...
Global Inequality - Inequality.org
网页Global Wealth Inequality. According to the UBS Global Wealth Report, in 2023 the world’s richest 1 percent, those with more than $1 million, owned 47.5 percent of all the world’s wealth – equivalent to roughly $214 trillion. Adults with less than $10,000 make up nearly 40 percent of the world’s population, but hold less than 1 percent ...
Wealth Inequality - Inequality.org
网页According to Institute for Policy Studies analysis of Forbes data, the combined wealth of all U.S. billionaires increased by $2.071 trillion (70.3 percent) between March 18, 2020 and October 15, 2021, from approximately $2.947 trillion to $5.019 trillion. Of the more than 700 U.S. billionaires, the richest five (Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Mark ...
Inequality and Health - Inequality.org
网页The same association between high economic inequality and poor health can be observed within the United States. “Deaths of despair” — premature deaths from suicide, alcohol abuse, and drug overdoses — are at historic highs, with lower-income Americans particularly hard hit. The opioid crisis has driven the starkest gap.
Racial Economic Inequality - Inequality.org
网页Racial Income Inequality. In 2021, Fortune 500 CEOs, who earned $18.3 million on average, included just four Black and 17 Latino people — just 4 percent of the total. By contrast, these groups made up 43 percent of the U.S. workers who would benefit from a raise in the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2025, according to Institute for ...
Inequality and Covid-19 - Inequality.org
网页According to APM Research Lab, white and Asian Americans have substantially lower Covid-19 mortality rates than those of other racial and ethnic groups. Between the start of the pandemic and October 2, 2022, indigenous people suffered 582 deaths per 100,000 people – more than twice the death rate for whites and Asians.
As Global Inequality Rises, So Are the Movements Fighting It
网页2019年11月26日 · This week we as Fight Inequality Alliance have released our first report, The State of the Growing Movement Fighting Inequality.We aimed to begin balancing the plethora of research on inequality — its causes and symptoms, as well as the data crunching and killer stats that others have been doing so well since inequality has skyrocketed to its current crisis levels — with some analysis of ...
2020 Inequality Survey - Inequality.org
网页The Nation-Institute for Policy Studies candidate inequality questionnaire highlights these battlefronts, focusing on struggles involving everything from CEO pay to intergenerational transfers of wealth. We asked all of the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates to complete our survey. Their answers are below, and we will continue to ...
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