Income Inequality Report – 2017

December 16, 2017 On December 14, 2017 renowned economists Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman, Facundo Alvaredo, Lucas Chancel and Thomas Piketty published a comprehensive and exhaustively researched World Inequality Report. Here’s a summary of what they found. Income inequality has increased in nearly all world regions in recent decades, but at … Continue reading

Avatar Income

July 30, 2017 Background According to the 2016 World Economic Forum, “the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which includes developments in previously disjointed fields requiring college degrees such as artificial intelligence and machine-learning, robotics, nanotechnology, 3-D printing, and genetics and biotechnology, will cause widespread disruption not only to business models but also … Continue reading

Deeds, Not Ineffective Rhetoric

July 14, 2017 The comings and goings of the Trumps and Clintons are but skillful distractions from the grave issues afflicting our country and the world: climate change, the global water crisis, the flat-out refusal of the world’s nuclear powers to eliminate humanity’s sword of Damocles, the lack of commitment … Continue reading

Distribution of Wealth in the U.S.

April 22, 2017 The Wealth Distribution In the United States, wealth is highly concentrated in relatively few hands. As of 2013, the top 1% of households (the upper class) owned 36.7% of all privately held wealth, and the next 19% (the managerial, professional, and small business stratum) had 52.2%, which … Continue reading

Low Paying Jobs

Extensive study (in English, .pdf file) by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, TX describing the loss over the last 20 years of middle-skill jobs in the U.S. labor market, a “barbell economy.”

Poor Suburbia

A report (in English only) by the Brookings Institution dated July 31, 2014 analyzing in great detail how, beginning in 2000, poverty has taken over the suburbs of the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the United States.

Inequality OXFAM 2014

OXFAM Report (in English) on inequality dated 01/20/2014; complete .pdf link used by permission, may take a few seconds to load.

Inequality Harvard

A 2014 report (in English) entitled An Economy Doing Half Its Job from Harvard University asserting, among other things, that the inequality gap is unsustainable, that there is no relief in sight, and that it’s actually getting worse. The report suggests areas that must be improved to counter the trend, … Continue reading

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