Then something good (but not great) happened around 1983 that got incomes growing again, but not nearly as fast as during 1948 – 1968, and at the cost of rapidly widening income inequality.

Finally, I saw a graph presenting the last 100 years in three parts: (1) Low taxes and low growth between 1913 and 1933; (2) high taxes and high growth between 1933 and 1980; and (3) low taxes and ...

The usual approach to thinking about inequality gets things exactly backward. It starts with a graph similar to the one above, which shows average pre-tax income by decile from the lowest-income ...

Income inequality theory is a lot like ancient astronaut theory, in that in order to believe in it, you have to disregard a lot of evidence to the contrary. Let's start with the most basic premise ...

Income inequality was identified as the #1 Top 10 Challenging Trends at the 2015 World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos last January. ... New theory on income inequality (2015, ...

The president wants to turn inequality into both a campaign banner and a grand unifying theory of the recovery. But not all economists agree with him. "What drags down our entire economy is when ...

The World Inequality Report is designed so that if you add up all the income assigned to each resident of the country, it does total the country’s GNI, so all those parts of the economy are ...

The Lorenz curve is a graphical representation of wealth or income distribution. It is used to calculate the Gini coefficient, a measurement of wealth inequality.

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The big picture on wealth, income, ecological, and gender inequality looks bad. Global inequalities are in bad shape and mostly do not appear to be getting better. Disparities today are about the same ...

A lot of folks in Seattle are doing very well. Census data released this month showed the median income for city households hit $121,000, up about 18% since before the pandemic, when the median ...

Income inequality declines, says SBI research unit debunking K-shaped eco recovery theory In a K-shaped recovery, some parts of the economy may experience strong growth while others continue to ...