Stagnation: You Can’t Feed A Family With G.D.P.
By Neil Irwin New York Times, September 16, 2014 The most important thing to know about the state of the United States economy was revealed in a report Tuesday morning that Wall Street barely noticed....
View ArticleAmerica Has More Low-Paying Jobs Than Any Other Developed Country
The U.S. has more low-paying jobs than any other country in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, an economic group of 34 developed countries, according to research by Morgan...
View ArticleKey Graph Shows: Rising Inequality Is A Political Choice
If you had any doubt the US economy had been rearchitected to favor the haves versus the have-lesses, this chart by Pavlina Tcherneva should settle it.
View ArticleGlobal Inequality Reaches Levels Not Seen in Nearly 200 Years
Photo: Dean Chahim/flickr/cc) “It is hard not to notice the sharp increase in income inequality experienced by the vast majority of countries from the 1980s,” the OECD report says. Global income...
View Article14 People Made More Money Than the Entire Food Stamp Budget for 50,000,000...
Above: Billionaire investor Warren Buffett. (Photo: Fortune Live Media / flickr / cc) For the second year in a row, America’s richest 14 individuals made more from their annual investments than the...
View ArticleKey Inequality Measure The Highest Since The Great Depression
The ratio of wealth to household income in the U.S., a measure of inequality, is the highest it has been since just before the Great Depression, Credit Suisse noted in a 64-page report on global wealth...
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