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The new report on wealth inequality comes from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. America's top 10% controls 60% of the wealth. The bottom half holds 6%.
The report concludes that the American economy's radical inequality is hindering economic growth, as the benefits are mainly enjoyed by those at the top, while the majority, responsible for the bulk of consumer spending which constitutes 67% of GDP, are left behind. [117]
In the framework of American federalism, states generally have wide latitude to enact policies within their borders, including state taxation and labor laws.Among the factors that may increase inequality in a state are regressive state tax policies [2] (taxation has played a growing role in diminishing inequality since the 1980s), [3] tax incentives for large companies, [4] corruption, [5 ...
A 2022 study in the American Economic Journal found that greater economic inequality in the United States than in Europe was not because of the nature of tax and transfer systems in the United States. The study found that the U.S. redistributes a greater share of its wealth to the bottom half of the income distribution than any European country.
According to EIG, which uses US Census Bureau data to sort districts by economic well-being, roughly 52 million Americans live in a "distressed" zip code. That's up from 50 million in 2018 .
South America: High income 47.17% 2022 2.24 2022 2.162 2022 United States: Northern America: High income 48.27% 2022 1.42 2022 1.762 2022 6.3 2022 Uzbekistan: Central Asia: Lower middle income 48.30% 2022 2.88 2003 2.495 2022 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: Caribbean: Upper middle income 48.52% 2022 Venezuela: South America —
For much of the past decade, policymakers and analysts have decried America's incredibly low savings rate, noting that U.S. households save a fraction of the money of the rest of the world.
Jonathan Hopkin writes the United States is an outlier regarding economic inequality which hit "unprecedented levels for the rich democracies" as it took the lead in implementing the neoliberal agenda in the 1980s, making it "the most extreme case of the subjection of society to the brute force of the market." He adds that even with average ...