Mar 18, 2024 · Four years ago, the United States entered the Covid-19 pandemic. Forbes published its 34th annual billionaire survey shortly after with data keyed to March 18, 2020. On that day, the United States had 614 billionaires who owned a combined wealth of $2.947 trillion.

Jul 30, 2015 · The USA women’s soccer team—now three-time winners of the Women’s World Cup—made headlines this time around not just for their brilliant performance, but also for what their victory brought to light: the gender pay gap.. The team was awarded $2 million for their first place finish. While this amount is significant, it pales in comparison to what the USA men’s team received last year ...

Throughout the U.S. workforce, women remain vastly underpaid. Institute for Policy Studies analysis of U.S. Census Bureau Data finds that among full-time workers, women earned an average of 83 cents for every dollar a man earned in 2021, up from 76 cents in 2001. The narrowing of the pay gap has slowed in the past two decades compared to earlier decades when women were joining the workforce in ...

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Nov 18, 2016 · The Great Gatsby (2013) Directed by Baz Luhrmann, featuring Leonardo DiCaprio. The economic inequality that figures so centrally in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel has inspired contemporary scholars to coin the phrase “Great Gatsby curve” to describe the relationship between inequality and intergenerational social immobility.

Mar 17, 2021 · The share of the nation’s wealth pie owned by the richest 0.01 percent has quadrupled over the last 70 years. Their percent of the total tax obligation has stayed the same.

Aug 26, 2019 · The New York Times published an editorial comment on its front page in January 2019, provocatively entitled “abolish billionaires.” The editorial raised a serious question: what if instead of being a sign of economic success, billionaires are a sign of economic failure?

Feb 11, 2015 · 3. A Global Wealth Tax? In Capital in the Twenty-first Century , Thomas Piketty recommends an international agreement establishing a wealth tax. Under his plan, countries would agree to tax personal assets of all kinds at graduated rates.The skeptics do have a point about whether this particular plan is practical, but we shouldn’t give up on the idea.

Jun 4, 2017 · Eight years ago, in our book The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better, we shared with readers the correlations between higher inequality and higher rates of mental illness.Since then, other pieces of the inequality-and-mental-health jigsaw puzzle have been falling into place — and quite rapidly.

Jan 3, 2020 · PROMISE: Working families will quickly get a $4,000 to $9,000 raise. Median family income grew by just $514 in 2018 after enactment of the tax law—much slower growth than occurred in each of the last three years under President Obama. The increase in the yearly wage growth rate is up just 0.4 percent over the roughly two …