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==Overview==
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[[category:US/issues]][[Economic disparity]] has become an issue of particular significance in the {{USA}} because of both its unusual severity since approximately 2005 and because of the fact that this continues despite continued economic growth in the US up to that time. (The US economy shrank a little in 2009, and the numbers are not yet available as to what effect this has had on economic disparity, though preliminary indications are that it has continued to worsen.)
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==About==
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[[Economic disparity]] has become an issue of particular significance in the {{USA}} because of both its unusual severity since approximately 2005 and because of the fact that this continues despite continued economic growth in the US up to that time. (The US economy shrank a little in 2009, and the numbers are not yet available as to what effect this has had on economic disparity, though preliminary indications are that it has continued to worsen.)
 
==Related Pages==
 
==Related Pages==
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* [[the one percent]]
 
* [[US economy]]
 
* [[US economy]]
 
==Links==
 
==Links==
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===Reference===
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* Wikipedia:
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** {{l/wp|Household income in the United States}}
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** {{l/wp|Income inequality in the United States}}
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===Demonstrations===
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* [https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/ Wealth, shown to scale]: interactive graphic showing the relative sizes of:
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** the US median household income of $63,179
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** $1 million
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** $1 billion
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** [[Jeff Bezos]]'s wealth of $171 billion, along with some comparisons to more familiar quantities
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** The combined wealth of the 400 richest Americans ($3.5 trillion)
 
===News===
 
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* '''2013-07-10''' [http://www.alternet.org/ceo-pay-went-16-last-year-15-million-how-much-did-your-pay-go CEO Pay Went Up 16% Last Year to $15 million -- How Much Did Your Pay Go Up?]
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* '''2013-06-08''' [http://truth-out.org/news/item/16849-us-inequality-now-literally-off-the-chart US Inequality Now Literally Off the Chart] "The ILO report places the US Gini coefficient at 47.7, or almost half way toward the extreme where one rich household gets everything and everyone else gets nothing."
 
* '''2007-08-01''' [http://www.theglobalist.com/storyid.aspx?StoryId=6369 How the U.S. Middle Class Became 10% Poorer]: a change in measurement standards intended to make them more accurate, not a real change
 
* '''2007-08-01''' [http://www.theglobalist.com/storyid.aspx?StoryId=6369 How the U.S. Middle Class Became 10% Poorer]: a change in measurement standards intended to make them more accurate, not a real change
 
* '''2007-07-30''' [http://www.alternet.org/rights/57727/ Is the US Heading for 'Developing Nations' Inequality Levels?] by Paul Harris, ''The Observer UK''
 
* '''2007-07-30''' [http://www.alternet.org/rights/57727/ Is the US Heading for 'Developing Nations' Inequality Levels?] by Paul Harris, ''The Observer UK''
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** [http://www.alternet.org/workplace/49374/ Who's Gorging and Who's Getting Roasted in the Economic Barbecue?] by James M. Cypher. Includes some recent history about [[George W. Bush|Bush]]'s tax breaks for the rich.
 
** [http://www.alternet.org/workplace/49374/ Who's Gorging and Who's Getting Roasted in the Economic Barbecue?] by James M. Cypher. Includes some recent history about [[George W. Bush|Bush]]'s tax breaks for the rich.
 
** [http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB117486847296848522-d5kwFZCuPubHPKzHqxC9gm1_e64_20080325.html Bush Reorients Rhetoric, Acknowledges Income Gap]
 
** [http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB117486847296848522-d5kwFZCuPubHPKzHqxC9gm1_e64_20080325.html Bush Reorients Rhetoric, Acknowledges Income Gap]
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* '''2012-11-20''' [[youtube:QPKKQnijnsM|Wealth Inequality in America]]: numerical visualizations of the current situation
 

Latest revision as of 20:20, 18 August 2020

About

Economic disparity has become an issue of particular significance in the United States because of both its unusual severity since approximately 2005 and because of the fact that this continues despite continued economic growth in the US up to that time. (The US economy shrank a little in 2009, and the numbers are not yet available as to what effect this has had on economic disparity, though preliminary indications are that it has continued to worsen.)

Related Pages

Links

Reference

Demonstrations

  • Wealth, shown to scale: interactive graphic showing the relative sizes of:
    • the US median household income of $63,179
    • $1 million
    • $1 billion
    • Jeff Bezos's wealth of $171 billion, along with some comparisons to more familiar quantities
    • The combined wealth of the 400 richest Americans ($3.5 trillion)

News

Related

Video

  • 2012/11/20 [L..T] Wealth Inequality in America “Infographics on the distribution of wealth in America, highlighting both the inequality and the difference between our perception of inequality and the actual numbers. The reality is often not what we think it is.”

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