Income inequality — the difference between what the rich earn and what the middle-class and poor do — is higher in the United States than in other developed countries. The income gap has widened over the past 30 years, unlike in most other developed countries. And, worryingly, it has yawned More…
A new report from the Insight Center for Community Economic Development highlights one big reason that just addressing wage gaps — be they gender- or race-based — won’t necessarily change the disproportionate number of African-Americans who find themselves mired in generational poverty: the wealth gap. Measured as assets More…
According to critics of laws forcing employers to pay women wages equal to those of men, government-enforced wage equity is an unfair burden on employers and strictly a product of women choosing to opt out of high-powered career tracks in order to pursue other kinds of work or take care More…
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