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The top 0.1% of American households hold the same amount of wealth as the bottom 90%
The Gini coefficient is a measurement of the income distribution within a country that aims to show…
Elena Holodny
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The US is a big outlier when it comes to income inequality
The Goldman duo also shared a chart comparing the mean versus median incomes in the US from 1975 to…
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The top 0.1% of American households hold the same amount of wealth as the bottom 90%
The Gini coefficient is a measurement of the income distribution within a country that aims to show…
Elena Holodny
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Byron Wien explains simply why America's wealth inequality is getting worse
Wien also argued in his commentary that "in spite of the wealth disparity, inequality does not seem…
Elena Holodny
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How Bitcoin Is Like North Korea
The distribution of Bitcoin holdings looks much like the distribution of wealth in North Korea and…
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This Chart Shows How Rich People Make Their Money Totally Differently From Everyone Else
Last night, Justin Wolfers Tweeted a chart from Visualizing Economics' Catherine Mulbrandon showing…
Rob Wile
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The United States was downgraded to a 'flawed democracy'
According to the EIU, "full democracies" are countries in which basic political freedoms and civil …
Elena Holodny
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China Just Approved A New Plan To Crush Income Inequality
Now, China has approved its long-awaited income distribution plan (IDP). Here are some details from…
Mamta Badkar
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More than 77% of India’s wealth is concentrated in the hands of just 10% of its population — and it shows that its economic divide is only widening
77.4% of India’s wealth is in the hands of 10% of its population, according to the report, with …
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22 Stunning Side-By-Side Images That Demonstrate China's Huge Wealth Gap
China has a high Gini coefficient, a measure of income inequality. In fact, during his outgoing spe…
Mamta Badkar
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Income inequality in Britain is at a 30-year low - but the richest 20% still have five times more to spend than the poorest
The median household disposable income in the UK is now £26,300, £1,000 higher than the pre-financi…
Oscar Williams-Grut
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Shocking Aerial Views Of Hong Kong's Tiny 'Cage' Apartments
Local advocacy group Society for Community Organization says that hundreds of thousands of people a…
Adam Taylor
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India's rural-urban income gap declines sharply amid fall in poverty level: SBI Report
Along with the sharp decline in poverty in India, there has also been a marked reduction in the rur…
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Income Inequality Could Be Causing Americans To Take Fewer Vacation Days
If a company pays all of its employees between $50,000 and $100,000 a year, there is a limit to how…
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Inequality has been growing for thousands of years - and it could hint at future societal collapse
Some people have advocated for a radical kind of restructuring involving basic income - a system in…
Chris Weller
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An ominous economic trend may be returning to Latin America, and it could have deadly consequences
Genaro Perfecto, 38, and his wife Cecilia Feliciano, 37, inside their house in San Quintin in Baja …
Christopher Woody
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New Inequality Study Proves What Democrats Have Been Saying For Years
Republicans have argued that increased big government, taxation and regulations are keeping small b…
Walter Hickey
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Income inequality is growing across the US - here's how bad it is in every state
Analysis from political geographer Richard Morrill showed that areas like the South, where income i…
Mark Abadi
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China has 4 mn millionaires, says a survey
"Strong market performance across the entire (Asia-Pacific excluding Japan) region -- tha…
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I spent 3 days in Jackson, Wyoming - the most unequal place in America, where the 1% makes more than $16.1 million a year. The experience was nothing like I expected.
As compared to the commonly used Gini coefficient measure of inequality, EPI's measure captures ver…