How the Poorest Americans Dropped Out of Politics
In the 2008 election, lower-income Americans voted at significantly lower rates than higher-income Americans. This was not, in itself, news. Just as in 2004, more than 60 percent of voters came from...
View ArticleIncome Inequality Linked to Senate Standoffs
In the United States, the past quarter-century has been marked by two disturbing societal trends: increasing levels of both income inequality and political polarization. The rich are growing richer,...
View ArticleGender Wage Gap Skewed By Survey Flaws
The wage gap between the sexes in America has been narrowing much faster than observers ever realized, although this revelation by a pair of University of Georgia researchers isn’t as good a tiding as...
View ArticleTen Thousand “One-Percenters” Pay Zero Income Tax
No less an authority than the Internal Revenue Service reports that at least 10,080 households with gross incomes of over $200,000 paid nothing at all in income taxes in 2009. (OK, that doesn’t...
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