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Die Suche nach »income inequality« hat 22 Resultate geliefert. Angezeigt werden die Resultate von 1 bis 10.

Recession Over? Depends Who You Ask
Mark Brenner, Labor Notes: "Today's Great Recession should have been the curtain call for an economic model that has left most workers with less buying power than they had in the mid-1970s, swelled the... ...
Does inequality still matter?
Cato Institute by Will Wilkinson 07/29/09 Whate ver happened to income inequality? George W. Bush’s last term was a golden age of the moralizing polemic decrying a widening income gap. Since then,... ...
US Income Inequality Continues to Grow
By Don Monkerud Wages for most Americans didn't improve from 1979 to 1998, and the median male wage in 2000 was below the 1979 level, despite productivity increases of 44.5 percent. Between 2002 and 2004,... ...
Show Us the Money
By William Greider Taxpayers should wake up the politicians and ask them to tell Wall Street: "We want the same deal Warren Buffett got." http://www.informat ionclearinghouse.info/arti cle20867.htm Richest... ...
U.S. Orgy of Debt
By ERIC MARGOLIS America has reveled for two decades in an orgy of debt. The U.S. national debt is now twice its net worth. From Wall Street's "masters of the universe" financial powerhouses such as... ...
Bombs, Booty and the Necessary Utopia
Writing for Geneva's Le Temps, Jean-Jacques Roth posits that sane environmental policies will provide the only way through the globalization-induced polarizations of identity and income inequality that... ...
Income-Inequality Gap Widens
The wealthiest 1% of Americans earned 21.2% of all income in 2005, according to new data from the Internal Revenue Service. That is up sharply from 19% in 2004, and surpasses the previous high of 20.8%... ...
Who's Paying the Price for America's Income Inequality?
In America, the top one-tenth of one percent of earners makes about the same money per year collectively as the millions of Americans in the bottom fifty percent combined. This is putting a tight squeeze... ...
US Graduates Suffer Income Inequality
Earnings of the average US worker with an undergraduate degree have not kept up with gains in productivity in recent decades, according to research by academics at MIT that challenges traditional explanations... ...
Gilded Once More
Paul Krugman writes: "One of the distinctive features of the modern American right has been nostalgia for the late 19th century, with its minimal taxation, absence of regulation and reliance on faith-based... ...