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WEALTH, POVERTY, AND INEQUALITY
UNITED STATES

"It is clear that inequality can be a serious threat to social and political stability. There is a growing recognition, however, that it can also threaten sustained growth. There is literature exploring the links between growing inequality and economic shocks and crises (Bordo and Meissner, 2012), a connection that appears to be closely associated with the greater economic and political weight of unregulated financial flows and markets (UNCTAD, 2012). [...] Inequality is not a matter of fate or chance and can be reversed through policies and reforms." - UN Chronicle

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

LEARNING RESOURCES

Racial Economic Inequality

Gender Economic Inequality

Tax Policy and Economic Inequality

The Role of Infrastructure in American Poverty

LEARNING RESOURCES

Background

Progress in fighting poverty in America has slowed despite recent economic recovery24/7 Wall Street analyzed data from government and private sources, interviewed experts and studied the latest research examining the poverty problem.

6 facts about economic inequality in the U.S.Over the past 50 years, the highest-earning 20% of U.S. households have steadily brought in a larger share of the country’s total income.

The science of inequality: why people prefer unequal societiesIn a thought-provoking new paper, three Yale scientists argue it’s not inequality in life that really bothers us, but unfairness

Racial Economic Inequality

The Fullest Look Yet at the Racial Inequity of CoronavirusNew federal data provides the most comprehensive view to date of how Black and Latino people have been likelier than their white peers to contract the virus and die from it.

Racial wealth gap may be a key to other inequitiesThe wealth gap between Black and white Americans is examined in this installment of the “Unequal” series.

Analysis | The black-white economic divide is as wide as it was in 1968Endless economic indicators point to deep (and deepening) black and white inequality in the U.S. — an illustration of a deeply unfair system. In many cases, the divide is still as bad or worse than it was in the 1960s.

Gender Economic Inequality

Payday, Poverty, and Women

What is the gender pay gap and is it real?: The complete guide to how women are paid less than men and why it can’t be explained away

Closing the gender pay gap could have big economic benefitsDespite debate over the causes of the gender pay gap, many experts agree leveling it will bring economic benefits.

Tax Policy and Economic Inequality

The real reason you’re not getting a pay raiseSolving the "wage puzzle": It’s not about inequality.

The U.S. tax system is "a new engine of inequality"Economist Gabriel Zucman, the brains behind Elizabeth Warren's wealth tax, says the American Dream is "not doing well"

Inequality and Tax Rates: A Global ComparisonWith economic inequality at an all-time high, some U.S. presidential candidates are proposing dramatic shifts to the U.S. tax code. How have similar plans worked elsewhere in the world?

Child Poverty

Children in Poverty: By the NumbersChildren growing up in poverty were already dealing with difficult family circumstances when the coronavirus began spreading across the United States.

The Child Tax Credit Grows Up To Lift Millions Of Children Out Of PovertyLast week, President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan (ARP) into law.

Why the U.S. is rethinking its approach to povertyAt the end of 2020, more than 50 million people were facing hunger, up 15 million from the year before, according to data from Feeding America, an anti-hunger organization. The pandemic, and the associated stimulus payments and rescue plan are changing how politicians are thinking about fighting poverty.

The Role of Infrastructure in American Poverty

Roads to nowhere: how infrastructure built on American inequalityFrom highways carved through thriving ‘ghettoes’ to walls segregating black and white neighbourhoods, US city development has a long and divisive history

Private Investors Can Help End Poverty. They Just Need to Think Small and Local.Lessons from the United Nations Capital Development Fund.

How infrastructure has historically promoted inequalityAdvocates hope the attention on Biden’s infrastructure plan will foster more conversation about the real history of inequity in American infrastructure and possible solutions.

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