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In other words, had Democratic presidents been in office since the 1970s, income inequality may have lessened since the 1950s instead of growing into what Bartels calls "The New Gilded Age" of the early 21st century. Bartels's findings led him to conclude that "economic inequality is, in substantial part, a political phenomenon." [5]
An overwhelming 86% said agreed that the wealthy having too much political influence is a big contributing factor–with 60% saying this leads to economic inequality "a great deal" and 26% saying ...
[151] [152] Evidence suggests the impact of national income inequality on regional economic divergence as one potential reason for the link between inequality and political polarization. [153] As income inequality increased, the degree of House of Representatives polarization measured by voting record followed.
Buildings in Rio de Janeiro, demonstrating economic inequality. Effects of income inequality, researchers have found, include higher rates of health and social problems, and lower rates of social goods, [1] a lower population-wide satisfaction and happiness [2] [3] and even a lower level of economic growth when human capital is neglected for high-end consumption. [4]
Economic inequality describes the uneven distribution of wealth, income, resources and opportunity to different groups of people in a society -- something America knows plenty about. The last...
Global share of wealth by wealth group, Credit Suisse, 2021 Share of income of the top 1% for selected developed countries, 1975 to 2015. Economic inequality is an umbrella term for a) income inequality or distribution of income (how the total sum of money paid to people is distributed among them), b) wealth inequality or distribution of wealth (how the total sum of wealth owned by people is ...
Causes of income inequality in the United States describes the reasons for the unequal distribution of income in the US and the factors that cause it to change over time. This topic is subject to extensive ongoing research, media attention, and political interest. U.S. inequality from 1913 to 2008. [1]
In it the authors argue that contrary to conventional wisdom, the dramatic increase in inequality of income in the United States since 1978—the richest 1% gaining 256% after inflation while the income of the lower earning 80% grew only 20% [1] —is not the natural/inevitable result of increased competition from globalization, but of the work ...