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Politics Mar 17

WATCH LIVE: Senate budget committee holds hearing on income and wealth inequality

By Associated Press

Economy Feb 12

Amid systemic inequality, U.S. salaries recover even as jobs haven’t

The turnaround in total wages underscores how disproportionately America's job losses have afflicted workers in lower-income occupations.

By Christopher Rugaber, Associated Press

Nation May 17

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Voter suppression and the impact of COVID-19 on people of color

The Rev. William J. Barber has long tackled the issues of race, poverty and hatred. His Poor People’s Campaign in June will hold a digital assembly and march on Washington to draw attention to civil rights issues. Hari Sreenivasan spoke…

Nation Apr 13

Short-term financial aid may not be enough during pandemic

Will the U.S. remain an outlier among wealthy countries in providing limited protections for the financially vulnerable? Or will it expand the social safety net, as it did after the Great Depression of the 1930s?…

By Paul Wiseman, Associated Press

Nation Sep 26

A young boy walks past an abandoned house in the Lower Ninth Ward neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, July 31, 2015. The areas with the most income inequality last year included Louisiana, according to Census data. Photo by Jonathan Bachman/Reuters
Income inequality grew in 2018, Census data shows

Three of the states with biggest gains in inequality from 2017 to 2018 were places with large pockets of wealth — California, Texas and Virginia.

By Mike Schneider, Associated Press

Jul 04

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Amid long economic expansion, why so many Americans are still struggling

The U.S. is currently in the midst of the longest economic expansion since the period following World War II. But even though the numbers are good, they don’t add up to prosperity for all Americans. William Brangham talks to Matthew…

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Jun 13

Watch 9:19
Can ‘baby bonds’ help the U.S. close its staggering racial wealth gap?

By Paul Solman

Whites in the U.S. have much greater household and individual wealth than blacks and other minorities. In fact, the typical black household has about 10 cents for every dollar of wealth in a typical white household. Some economists and politicians…

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Oct 28

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On this edition for Sunday, Oct. 28, grief and prayers in Pittsburgh after this weekend's deadly rampage at a Jewish synagogue, and the catastrophic human cost of the ongoing war in Yemen. Also, poverty on Skid Row of Los Angeles…

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Oct 28

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In LA, poverty on Skid Row defies U.S.’s humane reputation

By Simon Ostrovsky

Sanitary and living conditions for an estimated 2,000 homeless people along Los Angeles’ Skid Row are so severe that the United Nations recently compared them to Syrian refugee camps. How does extreme poverty persist in one of the country’s most…

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Mar 29

Is increasing income inequality a fact or a myth?

By Paul Solman

A new academic paper making the rounds of the economics profession contradicts conventional wisdom: that incomes of the top 10 percent, 1 percent and especially the tippy-top .1 percent, have been pulling away from the rest of Americans.

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