As you know President-elect Donald Trump and his Wall Street buddies are preparing to unleash disastrous economic policies. Together with allies, we will actively resist his extreme corporate agenda. But that’s not enough. We believe in fighting for — and … Continued
Posted at http://www.chn.org/2016/08/24/weve-heard-income-inequality-wealth-inequality/#.V7338fkrIdU By Melissa Roark August 24, 2016 You may recognize this statistic: In the U.S., CEOs of large firms make 276 times the pay of an average worker. That is the very definition of income inequality. But now, courtesy of the Center … Continued
From Keystone Research Center (http://www.keystoneresearch.org): Keystone Research Center Labor Economist Mark Price co-authored a report released this week entitled, “Income inequality in the U.S. by state, metropolitan area, and county.” The report shows that, while the incomes of the bottom 99 … Continued
Posted at https://janresseger.wordpress.com/2016/04/11/residential-resegregation-by-income-continues-across-americas-large-metropolitan-areas/ In 2011, Stanford University educational sociologist Sean Reardon and his Cornell University colleague Kendra Bishoff showed that while in 1970, only 15 percent of families lived in neighborhoods classified as affluent or poor, by 2007, 31 percent … Continued