Category: Income Inequality

It’s International Women’s Day and again we lament the pay gap between men and women. In Australia, the gender pay gap

If the Australian Open has taught us anything, it’s that athletic performance is priceless. For two weeks every January, fans

Men out-earn women by more than $27,000 a year. That was the finding of Workplace Gender Equality Agency data released this week.

Income inequality has often been attributed to top executives reaping a windfall while their workers’ pay stagnates. As my Capital

The federal tax code reduces income inequality significantly, taking more from the rich than it does from the middle class

This week everyone was talking about “House of Cards” — not because Netflix just dropped a new season on us,

Robin Wright has once again proven herself to be one of Hollywood’s brightest stars. This time though, it wasn’t with a

The stark reality of the U.S. is that people born poor are likely to remain that way. But the exact

After 7 years of student life, balancing casual hospitality work with study, I was pretty excited to finally have a

The gender pay gap is widening again because men’s earnings are growing this year at twice the rate of women’s. The median

U.S. earnings inequality has increased greatly in the last three decades, but the trend is due primarily to rising differences

It’s certainly not news that American women continue to earn less than men for the same work, typically 79 cents on

The gap between rich and poor has expanded in U.S. cities, and nowhere is that chasm wider than Atlanta. The top

Women may be underrepresented in high-paying jobs in engineering and information technology because of their choice of subjects studied in

WASHINGTON (AP) — Financial inequality became even wider in the United States last year, with average income for the top