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Inequality.org. is your online portal to data, analysis, and commentary on income and wealth inequality. You'll find on these pages information and insights that can help you better understand our deeply unequal world — and how we can work to change it.
Income Inequality - Inequality.org
Over the past five decades, the top 1 percent of American earners have nearly doubled their share of national income, according to figures in the World Inequality Database.Meanwhile, the Census Bureau’s “official” poverty rate for all U.S. families has merely inched up and down. In 2011, the Census Bureau began publishing a “supplemental” poverty measure that is …
Global Inequality - Inequality.org
According to the UBS Global Wealth Report, in 2023 the world’s richest 1 percent, those with more than $1 million, owned 47.5 percent of all the world’s wealth – equivalent to roughly $214 trillion.Adults with less than $10,000 make up nearly 40 percent of the world’s population, but hold less than 1 percent of the world’s wealth.
Facts - Inequality.org
Facts. People in the United States and around the world, researchers have found, significantly underestimate the extent of our contemporary inequality.
Racial Economic Inequality - Inequality.org
As with total wealth, home ownership is heavily skewed towards white families, our 2023 report with the National Community Reinvestment, Still a Dream, shows.Between 1960 and 2020, the rate of Black home ownership increased but the gap in ownership rates between Black and white families widened, from 26 percentage points to 30. Structural barriers, including lower incomes, higher rates of ...
Wealth Inequality - Inequality.org
The collective net worth of America’s top 12 billionaires now surpasses $2 trillion. Their combined wealth increased by more than $1.3 trillion, or 193 percent, between March 18, 2020 and December 3, 2024, according to Institute for Policy Studies …
Inequality and Taxes - Inequality.org
Donald Trump campaigned in 2024 on grand promises of tax cuts for the middle class. But Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy analysis finds that the only Americans who would enjoy a reduction in their taxes from his proposals are those in the richest 5 percent. The Institute’s analysis includes the impact of Trump’s proposed tariffs, …
About - Inequality.org
Our Mission. Inequality.org has been tracking inequality-related news and views for nearly two decades. A project of the Institute for Policy Studies since 2011, our site aims to provide information and insights for readers ranging from educators and journalists to …
The Year in Inequality in 10 Charts - Inequality.org
Dec 15, 2021 · The pandemic greed grab boosted support for taxing the rich to pay for vital public investments. A Vox and Data for Progress poll, conducted October 8-12, found that 71 percent of voters support increasing taxes on the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans to pay for the Build Back Better Act.This landmark bill, which passed the House in November and appears close to becoming law, is expected to ...
Inequality in America: Far Beyond Extreme - Inequality.org
Oct 12, 2020 · The 290 million or so unlucky souls who make up the so-called bottom 90 percent, meanwhile, saw just 13 percent of the nation’s wealth gains between 2006 and 2018, not much over half of what went to the top .01 percent.