From Moms Rising (https://www.momsrising.org/): For Latina Equal Pay Day, can you help us close the gender wage gap by sending a timely note to your lawmakers in Congress at https://action.momsrising.org/sign/LatinaEqualPay2021? It’s mission critical that equal pay becomes a reality for … Continued
Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/08/18/wages-stagnate-and-executive-pay-continues-balloon-report-shows-top-ceos-now-make Published on Tuesday, August 18, 2020 by Common Dreams New research from the Economic Policy Institute finds that CEO compensation grew by 1,167% from 1978 to 2019, “far outstripping” the growth of the stock market. By Jake … Continued
Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/10/07/maddening-graphic-shows-how-400-richest-americans-paid-less-taxes-any-other-income Published on Monday, October 07, 2019 by Common Dreams “The question of our time is this: will we tolerate it? Or will we take back our democracy from the oligarchs who run this country?” By Julia Conley, … Continued
Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/01/21/fundamentally-inhuman-economy-26-billionaires-own-much-worlds-38-billion-poorest Published on Monday, January 21, 2019 by Common Dreams While the wealth of billionaires increased by $900 billion last year, or $2.5 billion a day, latest Oxfam report on inequality shows “this bonanza has not been felt … Continued
From the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epi.org/): We hear a lot about the top 1 percent and how more and more income and wealth are going to the very richest Americans while working families get left behind. But did you know … Continued
Posted at https://www.publicnewsservice.org/2018-07-24/poverty-issues/wealth-gap-skyrocketing-in-pa/a63438-2 July 24, 2018 – Andrea Sears, Public News Service (PA) Play Audio in Browser Window Since 1973, the top 1 percent’s income has grown nine times faster than for the bottom 99 percent. (pxhere) HARRISBURG, Pa. – … Continued
Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/14/worlds-millionaires-and-billionaires-now-control-half-worlds-personal-wealth-new Published on Thursday, June 14, 2018 by Common Dreams “The rich are getting a lot richer and doing so a lot faster.” By Jessica Corbett, staff writer Spectators watch the Mercedes-Benz Polo Challenge July 21, 2001 in … Continued
Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/11/14/millennials-fall-far-behind-worlds-richest-1-hoard-half-global-wealth Published on Tuesday, November 14, 2017 by Common Dreams 70 percent of the world’s working-age adults have less than $10,000 each By Julia Conley, staff writer Although adults between the ages of 20 and 29 are better … Continued
By Tracy Jan October 3 The share of white millionaires in the United States has doubled in the past quarter-century, with 1 in 7 white families now worth more than $1 million, according to new Federal Reserve data. Fifteen percent of white families … Continued
Download the KRC fact sheet on Pennsylvania Top 1% Incomes in 2014 Download the CBPP fact sheet on Pennsylvania Incomes in 2015 Download the CBPP report “How State Tax Policies Can Stop Increasing Inequality and Start Reducing It” HARRISBURG – … Continued