In One Chart: How economic inequality is killing us

Mark Rightmire/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images The House voted on Thursday to pass one of the most sweeping pro-worker bills in decades, but it's likely dead on arrival.....»»

Dollar Stores Dominate US Retail Store Openings  The wildly uneven US economic recovery since the virus pandemic began in early 2020 has given rise to dangerous levels of inequality, otherwise known as the "K-shaped" recovery. .....»»

Biden’s $4 Trillion Economic Plan, in One Chart Source: New York Times     This is a pretty big deal, and its hard to judge if it is being recognized as such. i am going down the rabbit holes to see what.....»»

This chart shows market players are less concerned now about the path of expected future rate increases from the Federal Reserve than a month ago, even as the U.S. economic outlook brightens......»»

"Fixing America's problems is going to take hard work," the CEO of the US' largest bank by assets wrote in his annual sharehold.....»»

So This Is How The US Dollar Dies... Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, Our leaders are killing the U.S. dollar, and it is being done to thunderous ap.....»»

Demand For Used Private Jets Takes Off During Pandemic  In a troubling sign that economic inequality continues to widen in the pandemic recess.....»»

New federal data offers comprehensive snapshot of a year marred by staggering job losses, waves of small-business closures and mounting inequality......»»

New federal data offers comprehensive snapshot of a year marred by staggering job losses, waves of small-business closures and mounting inequality......»»

The pandemic worsened inequality so much it will take a decade for lower-income Americans to recover. .....»»

As stocks staged a huge rebound from their lows in March, when the coronavirus pandemic threw the economy into recession, the gap between the wealthy and the poor extended a widening trend to historic proportions......»»

Cutting taxes boosts incomes for the wealthy "but has little effect on economic performance,".....»»

Efforts to quickly restart economi.....»»

The pandemic highlights the economic consequences of widening inequality in the U.S......»»

WASHINGTON — Efforts to quickly restart economic activity risk further dividing Americans into two major groups along socioeconomic lines: one that has the power to control its exposure to the.....»»

tapped the city's brain trust from labor, government and real estate, as well as his own wife, to come together to reopen New York's economy with a focus on fixing inequality. " we="" have="" to=""... To view the full story, click the title link......»»

The coronavirus has spread to 185 countries and territories — infecting more than 2.7 million people and killing over 190,000 globally, according to Johns Hopkins University......»»

The coronavirus is not entirely indiscriminate in claiming economic victims: some companies seem much more immune than others. L.....»»

Hundreds of millions of people faced a world turned upside down on Wednesday by unprecedented emergency measures against the coronavirus pandemic that is killing the old and vulnerable and threatening prolonged economic misery......»»

Sarinya Pinngam / EyeEm/ Getty Images Paul Constant is a writer at Civic Ventures, a cofounder of the Seattle Review of Books, and a frequent cohost of the "Pitchfork Economics" podcast with Nick Hanauer. They recently inter.....»»