Income Distribution, Inequality and Poverty
The test of our progress is not
whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it
is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
Franklin Roosevelt's Second Inaugural Address,
January 1937.
World
Top Income Shares
Basic
family budget calculator, Eco. Policy Institute
Nine
Charts about Wealth Inequality in America
Economic
Condition of African American CommunityEPI, State
of Working America
Top
CEOs Make 300 Times More than Typical Workers: Pay
Growth Surpasses Stock Gains and Wage Growth of Top 0.1 Percent,
Mishel & Davis, EPI 6/15
How Much do you
Need to Earn to Afford a Modest Apartment in
Your State? Out of Reach 2015
Policy
Basics: The Estate Tax CBPP, 3/15
The
Poor Get Prison: The Criminalization of Poverty,
IPS 3/15
Income
Inequality in a Nutshell: Wall St Bonuses Exceed
Pay of All Full-Time Minimum Wage Workers, Mother Jones, 3/15
Image Off
the Deep End: Wall St. Bonus Pool& Low-Wage Workers,
Anderson, IPS 3/15
Who
gained from income growth? interactive chart on inequality, 1917-2008
EPI
How
Much More (Or Less) Would You Make If We Rolled Back Inequality?Bui,
NPR
Power
from the People, [Inequality fed by union decline]
IMF, Jaumotte & Buitron 3/15
Race
Inequality between US Whites and African-Americans by the Numbers,
Cole 11/14
Growing
Apart: A Political History of American Inequality,
Gordon 9/14
Inequality
and the Case for Unions, Koechlin, 6/14
Profile of the Working Poor2012, BLS 3/14
State
of the Dream Reports [Racial Wealth Divide]
How
Equal Pay for Working Women would Reduce Poverty
and Grow the American Economy Hartmann et al, IWPR 1/14
Crucial
Role of Safety Net in Lowering U.S. Poverty RatesWimer
et al, 12/13
Growing
trade deficit with China cost the U.S. economy $37.0 billion in
lost wages in 2011 Scott, EPI 9/13
Change the Rules
[video on international inequality]
Why
the US Lags Other Advanced Economies in Women’s Employment,
Appelbaum 11/13
Resetting
the Poverty Debate: State of the States 2013, 12/13
The
Unfinished March, Austin, EPI 6/13
Hunger
in America: 2014
New
Census Numbers Make it Official: 2000-2010 Was a Lost Economic
Decade
Financial
Security of Elderly Americans at Risk, EPI 6/13
Rising
Extreme Poverty in the United States and the Response of Federal
Means-Tested Transfer Programs, Shaefer & Edin
5/13
The
New American Economy: A Rising Tide that Lifts Only Yachts,
TCF 1/13
Ten
Myths about the Estate Tax CBPP 11/12
U.S.
lags behind peer countries in mobility, Gould,EPI
10/12
Income,
Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the US 2011,
US Densus 9/12
How
Well Does TANF Proide IncomeSupportfor Poor Families?
CBPP 8/12
Best
and Worst Countries for Women, 6/12
Did
Income Inequality Cause the Financial Crisis? Landy,
TCF 5/12
Striking
It Richer:The Evolution of Top Incomes in the US,
Saez, updated 3/12
Extreme
Poverty in the United States, 1996 to 2011, Edin
& Shaefer, NPC 2/12
How Do States'
Safety Net Policies Affect Poverty? Wheaton et al,
Urban Instit, 9/11
How
Inequality Harms Societies, R. Wilkinson, TED video,
10/11
How Growing Inequality Led to
Shrinking Democracy, Meltdown, & Mass Unemployment, Goldberg
9/11
Who
are the 1% and What Do They Do for a Living? New Deal
2.0, 10/11
Trends
in the Distribution of Household Income Between 1979 & 2007,
CBO 10/11
Employment
Crisis Worsens for Black Women during the Recovery,
NWLC 8/11
What
We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Jobs: How
Racism, Global Economics, and the New Jim Crow Fuel Black America's
Crippling Jobs Crisis, Kroll
Two
Years of Economic Recovery: Women Lose Jobs, Men Find Them,
Kochhar, 7/11
America’s
Tax System Is Not as Progressive as You Think, CTJ,
4/11
Nine
Pictures Of The Extreme Income/Wealth Gap, D. Johnson,
2/11
Great
Recession Hit Hard at America’s Working Poor:
Nearly 1 In 3 Working Families in United States are Low-Income,
Roberts et al, Winter 2011
Education
is Not the Cure for HighUnemployment or Income Inequality,
Mishel EPI, 1/11
Race,
Ethnicity and the Economy, EPI
Does
America Promote Mobility as Well as Other Nations?
Pew, 11/11
Americans
prefer Sweden's wealth distribution to ours, Ariely
& Norton
Income
inequality in dollars and cents, EPI, 11/10
Poor
healthcare may shorten American lives, U.S. ranks
49th in life expectancy Reuters 10/10
Poor
men have shorter lives, EPI 10/10
Looking
at Today’s Poverty Numbers, Sherman, CBPP 9/10
Why
Bad Things Happen to Unequal People, Pizzigati, 7/10
"Broke,
USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc.–How the
Working Poor Became Big Business", Rivlin video, 7/10
Why
More Equality?, The Equality Trust, UK
A
long and persistent middle-class squeeze, EPI, 2/01
Why
Welfare Reform Fails Its Recession Test, Edelman
Ehrenreich, Wash.P, 12/09
In Job Hunt, College Degree Can’t
Close Racial Gap, Luo, NYT, 11/09
Divided
We Stand:Why Inequality Keeps Rising [OECD Countries]
2011
Discrimination
and Black Male Unemployment, Austin, EPI, 6/09
The
City That Ended Hunger [Belo Horizonte, Brazil] F.M.
Lappé, 3/09
New
Estimates of Economic Inequality in America, 1959–2004,
Zacharias et al Levy, 4/09
Growing
disparities in life expectancy, E. Gould, EPI, 7/08
Official
poverty measure undercounts the nation's poor, Bernstein,
EPI, 7/08
Ending
Plutocracy: A 12-Step Program, Anderson and Pizzigati,
Chart Nation, 6/08
"Interplay of Politics and Law to
Promote Health: Improving Economic Equality and Health:
The Case of Postwar Japan," Bezruchka, Namekata, & Sistrom,
AJPH 4/08 http://tinyurl.com/nu22efa
Inequality: Bad for Your Health
An interview with Ichiro Kawachi, Harvard Sch/Public Health, $
&Sense, Jan/Feb 08
Hunger
& Homelessness Survey, US Conf. of Mayors, 12/07
Income share,
richest 10% for past 90 years ests Piketty &
Saez
Who's
Grabbing All the New Pie?, Mishel, EPI, 8/07
Recent
Trends in Household Wealth in the U.S., Wolff, 6/07
Share
of National Income Going to Wages and Salaries at Record Low
in 2006: Share of Income Going to Corporate Profits at Record
High, CBPP 3/07
Lies,
Damn Lies and Poverty Statistics: How an archaic measurement keeps
millions of poor Americans from being counted, Christopher
Moraff, 2/06
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