A roundup of recent articles on one of the biggest problems in the country.
Hey teens! Wealth inequality isn’t fleek or fire 🔥🔥, that’s why I wrote an article to show you that you don’t need fat stacks 💰💰💰 to be radical! 💯💯💯 https://t.co/39UZk7ttlB
— Philip Bump (@pbump) July 9, 2019
Further reminder that regional inequality is not only about the coasts vs interior, but also within regions: the vast majority of growth and prosperity in Texas is accruing to a handful of major cities, while most of the state's smaller cities fall behind: https://t.co/N0JGjaSpzr
— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) July 9, 2019
This is outrageous. https://t.co/C3vxg4jmdZ
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) July 5, 2019
The number of billionaires in the United States has more than doubled in the last decade, from 267 in 2008 to 607 last year.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) July 3, 2019
Tax the rich. https://t.co/IRQB95rKpm
Richest 1% now holding record $303.9 billion, up from under $15 billion before financial crisis. They’re betting on companies that lose $1 billion a year, bonds from Middle Eastern republics, Silicon Valley start-ups with more money than they can handle.https://t.co/TAlChrDg0T
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) June 10, 2019
“I was wrong…[E]ducationism is tragically misguided. American workers are struggling in large part because they are underpaid—and they are underpaid because 40 years of trickle-down policies have rigged the economy in favor of wealthy people like me.” https://t.co/BgOl1R7xAH
— Anand Giridharadas (@AnandWrites) June 10, 2019
income inequality has become the starting point for every economic debate in the 2020 campaign
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) June 5, 2019
in this @CNBC video and column, we step back and explain why the gap between the wealthy and everyone else keeps growinghttps://t.co/VrRb0aXFfA
In Opinion
— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 20, 2019
Joseph E. Stiglitz writes, "The U.S. has the highest level of inequality among the advanced countries and one of the lowest levels of opportunity. But things don’t have to be that way." https://t.co/OPFHnY7wRe
Sad! 