Wealth Gap

Median household income of congressional districts controlled by each party: Democrat 1990 Republican

By Zach Carter, TMC MediaWire blogger The U.S. economy may finally be bottoming out. But if the worst is really behind us, we are likely facing a painful period of "growth" that looks very much like the present. Without increasing unionization and mitigating racial inequality, our economic…

Major figures in the football industry say more needs to be done to close the wealth gap between the top teams and the majority of other club businesses.

Russia is disappearing. So is Japan. Europe is next to go. It's not the rising waters of global……although reduced by the current global economic crisis, have helped in a modest way to bridge the wealth gap between the developing and developed world. But foreign workers only temporarily…

The brains of poverty-stricken children process information differently to those of their wealthier counterparts, US research suggests.

Closing the racial wealth gap needs to be at the forefront of efforts to achieve economic opportunity in the 21st century.

Children from the most deprived homes are more likely to need intensive care than their wealthier counterparts, say researchers.

This is no time to reduce rates for richest slice of U.S. society. In recent weeks, members of Congress from both parties have expressed righteous indignation over bonuses paid to wealthy executives at some financial institutions. Many lawmakers have...

Byron York reports: A number of experts believe that aggressive enforcement of the 1970s-era……1479, the "Community Reinvestment Modernization Act of 2009." The bill's purpose is "to close the wealth gap in the United States" by increasing "home ownership and small business ownership…

I wrote last week about the value of scrutinizing financial products through the lens of race, but that is only one piece of the puzzle. Melvin Oliver, dean of social sciences at the University of California at Santa Barbara, sums up the racial wealth gap quite well: "For every dollar of net…

The numbers are staggering, both in the failures of our ersatz health care and our job……choose to do without health insurance. Generalizing, those deaths are a result of the widening wealth gap. Getting people back to work will help the economy, help bring down the deficit,…

The muted response to Van Jones’ resignation says volumes about where progressives stand in……Jones story reveal about American politics? Ludovic Blain, Project Manager of Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Initiative, Rory O’Connor, co-founder of Globalvision and the author of Shock…

Well, gee. Is this a bug - or a feature? Who could ever have predicted that concentrating all the wealth at the top and exempting them from increased Social Security taxes would lead to a decrease in the Social Security trust fund? The nation's wealth gap is widening amid an uproar about lofty…

The wealth gap is widening, as highly compensated employees now get more than one-third of all pay, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of Social Security data.

Official figures show the wealth gap between rural and urban areas widened further last year to 3.36:1.