Inequality
Inequality Links
- United for a Fair Economy Organization concerned about the growing income, wage and wealth inequality in the United States.
- United for a Fair Economy U.S. national, independent, nonpartisan organization concerned about the growing income, wage and wealth inequality in the United States. Specific issues include wage inequalities and "tax cuts for the rich".
- Metro-politics Review of position paper: Metro-politanism can reduce Social and Economic Polarization.
- Addressing the Extremes of Wealth and Poverty Outlines a proposals to reduce the disparity in wealth between poor and wealthy nations and individuals, through taxation and redistribution.
- Income Disparity: The Gap Between the Rich and the Poor The final word on the income gap. How much of a problem is wealth versus poverty?
- Campaign to fight poverty and build economic security in CT A coalition of government, community and issue-oriented groups worried about poverty/income insecurity among Connecticut's majority working housholds.
- The New Inequality (from Boston Review) MIT's prestigious Boston Review discusses the rise of income inequality in the United States with a variety of economists and proposes some remedies, all along socialist lines.
- Earnings Differences Between Women and Men Analysis of the difference in earnings by working women and men in the United States from 1951 through 1999, from Facts on Working on Working Women, U.S. Department of Labor.
- A Brief Look at Postwar U.S. Income Inequality Census Bureau 1996 paper pointing out the sharp decline in the percentage of income of the bottom 80% of American since the late 1960's, taking the whole thirty years as a block.
- A Widening Income Gap? Hardly Mitchell B. Pearlstein, president of the Center of the American Experiment, gives statistics and facts about "the gap between rich and poor".
- The Conquest of Poverty Drawing lessons from history and economics, Hazlitt shows how the Western world has nearly eradicated poverty. But "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
- Growing Income Disparity and the Middle Class Squeeze Catholic Social Justice takes a stand against income disparity, which it says is growing fast in the US. Includes statistics.
- Capitalist Policies Position paper that such policies lead to social and economic inequality. By By Ramin Farahmandpur.
- Closing the Wealth Gap A speech by P. J. O'Rourke, nationally syndicated columnist and award-winning author, on income disparity.
- The L-Curve Graphically describes and criticizes income distribution in the United States.
- Poverty, Inequality and Development: Research at Cornell University Portal to research on poverty, inequality and development at Cornell University.
- The Income Gap National Public Radio's John Ydstie investigates the growing disparity in real income between Americans in this special series from Morning Edition
- China: A Shared Poverty To Uneven Wealth? A George Washington University analysis of how economic reforms (away from socialism) have caused a widening income gap in China, and yet raised the standards of living of the Chinese people.
- IGC articles on income inequality A collection of online articles from various organisations concerning income inequality in the US and abroad, claiming there is a growing gap, that this is bad, and that it should be "fixed" by government force.
- The Truth about Income Inequality Dramatic stories portraying a widening inequality of income and a disappearing middle class in America have permeated the media in recent years. This article presents some statistics and arguments on that subject.
- The Causes of Income Inequality Addresses the causes of the income gap, and some proposed solutions.
- Inequality of Wealth and Incomes One of the first major articles on income disparity, by one of the greatest and most revered of economic theorists, Ludwig Von Mises.
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