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The Mathematics Teacher (MT), an official journal of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, is devoted to improving mathematics instruction from grade 8-14 and supporting teacher education ...
This chart is the one that convinces me that the increase in income inequality in the US is all about globalisation and about very little else. Further, as such it's simply not something that I can ...
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen on Friday called the breadth and depth of inequality in America a serious problem that strikes at the core of the country's social and economic values. She made her ...
Inequality in America is about more than the rich and the poor. Significant income gaps are present by age, by race, by occupation, by family type, by homeownership and more. Since 1989, the Federal ...
This chart by Pavlina Tcherneva, an economics professor at Bard University, shows a simple yet shocking trend of how bad income inequality has gotten. The graphic illustrates the distribution of ...
If you aren't morally outraged by the idea of some Americans having ludicrously more money than others and the death of the American dream, then perhaps you will be moved to see that income inequality ...
[caption id="attachment_22605" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Catania Sicily, Italy. Men with a lower level of education live shorter lives, on average, than their ...
As finance ministers and central banks gather in Washington this week for the spring meetings of the IMF and World Bank, income inequality will be among the topics of discussion. While global economic ...
Democrats have made income inequality a prominent issue of late, and there's a good reason why: Wealth distribution in the U.S. is far less equitable than it is in just about any other developed ...
Tim Smeeding, a professor of public affairs and economics at the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin — Madison, has a few ideas on how to solve income inequality in the US ...