Income inequality

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A wealthy couple on board a private jet
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Over the past 30 years the U.S.’s top 1% got richer, and now hold nearly a third of the nation’s wealth

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October 8, 2024
Businesswoman working on her laptop and having a video conference at her work desk. Rear view of a woman discussing work on video call with team members. Back to work post corona virus pandemic lockdown.
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New study debunks employers’ RTO argument that remote work entrenches inequality

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September 30, 2024
Woman taking selfie
Lifestyle

Online dating lets us look for similar education levels, adding to income inequality

By Alex Tanzi and Bloomberg
September 14, 2024
A woman and a man sit at a table in a workplace setting, both holding stacks of money. The woman looks at the man's larger stack of cash with a subtle expression of concern, while the man glances at her, representing the concept of the gender pay gap and unequal earnings between men and women
Finance

The gender pay gap just grew for the first time in decades

By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
September 10, 2024
Hedge fund speculator Bill Ackman

Billionaire Bill Ackman has an idea for getting the ultrawealthy to finally pay a fair share of taxes

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August 23, 2024
A shoppers stands in an aisle of fruits and vegetables and places an item in their bag.
Retail

Shoppers are so scarred by inflation they’ve cemented new habits to save money—and discount retailers are the big winners

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August 22, 2024
Jamie Dimon, chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase
Finance

Jamie Dimon wants to hit millionaires with the ‘Buffett Rule’ to tackle national debt

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August 15, 2024
Black and white income gap shrank between Gen X and millennials in the U.S.
Politics

Black and white income gap shrank between Gen X and millennials in the U.S.

By Mike Schneider and The Associated Press
July 30, 2024
Tom Davidson, founder and CEO of EVERFI from Blackbaud, speaking at a panel.
Finance

An obscure 47-year-old law designed to right the historic wrongs of redlining was the ‘original ESG framework,’ execs say. Just look at how Crown Heights and Bed-Stuy have changed

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May 16, 2024
Gen Z worker looking worried at he computer
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Gen Z really do have it worse: Those in their early 20s are earning less and have more debt than millennials did at their age

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May 14, 2024
Pascal Soriot, chief executive officer of Astrazeneca Plc, speaks during an interview in London, U.K.
Finance

U.K. CEOs are facing off with shareholders to get U.S.-level pay. With interest rates set to fall, they might get it

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May 9, 2024
Esther Duflo accepting her Nobel prize in 2019
Finance

Nobel laureate Esther Duflo proposes taxing 3,000 billionaires to protect the world’s poorest from climate change—and most Americans likely agree with the plan

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April 20, 2024
Ken Paxton
Politics

Texas AG sues to halt a guaranteed income program, calling it a ‘socialist experiment’

By Juan Lozano and The Associated Press
April 9, 2024
Shot of a young businesswoman looking stressed out while working on a laptop in an office
Success

Women outearn men in just a handful of U.S. cities, report finds—and not by a lot

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March 27, 2024
hispanic latina college student works on assignment in her dorm room.She is smiling and in the background there is a big blackboard
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These are the worst-paying college degrees, according to a Fed analysis of 75 majors

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March 19, 2024

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