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wealth and income inequality in America is still getting worse by many measures. To see what's really happening, we encourage everyone to view our new series of charts. The share of U.S. wealth ...
We found that inequality in disposable income increased in most advanced and many developing economies over recent decades (Chart 1) and that inequality is substantially higher in developing than in ...
Chart showing that household income inequality in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties has outpaced California and U.S., reaching an all-time high in 2022.That's according to a new closely watched ...
The top panel of Chart 3 provides a rough estimate of trends in worldwide inequality over the past forty years, using the mean log deviation measure of income inequality (the mean log deviation can be ...
Most participants were far from understanding the extent of income inequality, which is not surprising ... Here is one of the more shocking charts, which reveals that the bottom 80% of Americans ...
And data designed to capture the overall population may be obscuring challenges experienced by a broad range of Americans, especially those in the bottom half of the wealth or income spectrum.
The substantive bulletins are part of a series published annually (at a minimum): there are two on household income inequality and one on the effects of taxes and benefits on the distribution of ...