EconomicInequality

The gulf between the top 1% and everyone else kept on growing in 2020

Wages rose in 2020 … for people who already made a lot of money. That continues a decades-long trend of rising inequality in which, from 1979 to 2020, wages for the top 1% grew by 179.3%, wages for …

Fri Dec 24, 2021

Want to fight economic and racial inequality at the same time? Think union

Happy Labor Day, if a Labor Day that represents the cut-off date for unemployment benefits for millions of people and on which the federal minimum wage hasn’t risen for well over a decade offers much …

Mon Sep 6, 2021

Black Women's Equal Pay Day is all the evidence of systemic racism and sexism you need

Black Women’s Equal Pay Day falls on August 3 this year. That’s the day when, starting on January 1, 2020, Black women have finally been paid what white men were paid in 2020 alone. Equal Pay Day, the …

Tue Aug 3, 2021

CEO pay rises, average worker pay stagnates, this week, year, decade in the war on workers

The pandemic did not change rising economic inequality in the United States—go figure. We’ve seen again and again how existing inequalities instead were exacerbated as people who could work remotely …

Sun May 30, 2021