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In 2002, a "maximum-fee" system was introduced in Sweden that states that costs for childcare may be no greater than 3% of one's income for the first child, 2% for the second child, 1% for the third child, and free of charge for the fourth child in pre-school. 97.5% of children age 1–5 attend these public daycare centers.
Unequal access to education in the United States results in unequal outcomes for students. Disparities in academic access among students in the United States are the result of multiple factors including government policies, school choice, family wealth, parenting style, implicit bias towards students' race or ethnicity, and the resources available to students and their schools.
Income inequality is a discussion that’s been surfacing off and on for years now, but thanks to presidential politics, it’s once again in the headlines.
While pre-tax income is the primary driver of income inequality, the less progressive tax code further increased the share of after-tax income going to the highest income groups. For example, had these tax changes not occurred, the after-tax income share of the top 0.1% would have been approximately 4.5% in 2000 instead of the 7.3% actual figure.
The Powerful Forces Driving Income Inequality The promise of market economics is supposed to be that as an economy grows, the paychecks of wage earners grow with it. But according to a new study ...
Wealth and income inequality in the United States is large and growing. "The upper 1 percent of Americans are now taking in nearly a quarter of the nation's income every year. In terms of wealth ...
According to the Federal Reserve, this represents one of the largest three-year rises in inequality in recent US history. If your annual salary is around the median, or about $70,000, the cards ...
The paper opens by observing that in the United States almost one half of children born to low income parents become low income adults, four in ten in the United Kingdom, and one-third in Canada. The paper goes on to observe that rich children also tend to become rich adults—four in ten in the U.S. and the U.K., and as many as one-third in ...