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WEBis 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. Inequality.org comes to you as a project of the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Policy Studies.
Global Inequality - Inequality.org
WEBGlobal Wealth Inequality. 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 ...
Wealth Inequality - Inequality.org
WEBAccording to Institute for Policy Studies analysis of Forbes data, the combined wealth of all U.S. billionaires increased by $2.071 trillion (70.3 percent) between March 18, 2020 and October 15, 2021, from approximately $2.947 trillion to $5.019 trillion. Of the more than 700 U.S. billionaires, the richest five (Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Mark ...
Eight Ways To Reduce Global Inequality
WEBFeb 11, 2015 · Reversing this trend presents a significant challenge, but one where we’ve seen some progress. Below we offer eight ways to move the world forward in reducing global inequality. 1. Stop Illicit Outflows. In developing countries, inadequate resourcing for health, education, sanitation, and investment in the poorest citizens drives extreme ...
Income Inequality - Inequality.org
WEBOver 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 more accurate but ...
The Racial Wealth Gap is Persistent – and Growing
WEBJun 27, 2024 · The Racial Wealth Gap is Persistent – and Growing. The racial wealth gap continues to deepen in large part due to the cumulative impact of the country’s racial history. Research & Commentary. June 27, 2024. by Amber Holland. The data is clear – the racial wealth gap in the United States is persistent and growing.
‘Reckoning’ with the Economic Marginalization of Native Americans
WEBMar 8, 2022 · In 2005 and 2006, Native Americans experienced a record-high 58.2 percent homeownership rate, but by 2016, this has decreased to a low of 47.6 percent. While the Indian Home Loan Guarantee Program apparently has provided a boost to Native American homeownership, there is still much work to do to advance …
Who Owns Almost All America’s Land? - Inequality.org
WEBFeb 15, 2016 · White Americans, by comparison, own more than 98 percent of U.S. land amounting to 856 million acres with a total worth of over $1 trillion. CNN founder Ted Turner alone owns over 2 million acres of land according to Forbes magazine. In other words, one person owns nearly a quarter of what all black Americans combined own in rural land.
Racial Economic Inequality - Inequality.org
WEBRacial Income Inequality. In 2021, Fortune 500 CEOs, who earned $18.3 million on average, included just four Black and 17 Latino people — just 4 percent of the total. By contrast, these groups made up 43 percent of the U.S. workers who would benefit from a raise in the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2025, according to Institute for ...
Our Social Darwinists Then and Now - Inequality.org
WEBFeb 22, 2015 · Economic inequality, to Social Darwinists, becomes simply the necessary consequence of a system designed to delineate the “fit” (the rich), upon whom the survival and improvement of the species depends, from the “unfit” (the poor). The consolidation of economic and political power in the hands of the wealthy — Ryan’s “makers ...