The path toward economic recovery in the U.S. has become sharply divided, with wealthier Americans earning and saving at record levels while the poorest struggle to pay their bills and put food on the table https://t.co/njtmcvZIzB
— POLITICO (@politico) September 7, 2020
My favorite fun fact that few people know, if the minimum wage had kept pace with productivity growth since 1968, as it did from 1938 to 1968, it would be $24 an hour today https://t.co/0zkt61Vrh3
— Dean Baker (@DeanBaker13) September 6, 2020
A simple way to depict the incredible accumulation of wealth at the top:
— Gabriel Zucman (@gabriel_zucman) August 30, 2020
In 1980, on average the top 1% richest Americans owned 70 times the average US income in wealth
Today the top 1% richest Americans own 200 times the average US income in wealth pic.twitter.com/ZmR7Ua78w5
It’s pretty hard to stun me. This stunned me. pic.twitter.com/rvuZI5lQXn
— Moshik Temkin (@moshik_temkin) August 17, 2020
"White households saw a 43% increase in their net worth between 1995 and 2016 while Black households’ net worth remained flat." pic.twitter.com/rR9sMZRxHf
— Pedro Nicolaci da Costa (@pdacosta) July 19, 2020
America, we have a problem https://t.co/E0oY203FDp by @serwer and @MaxZahn_ pic.twitter.com/OCBxBDzc6n
— Yahoo Finance (@YahooFinance) July 11, 2020
Remember, the richest 1% of Americans is responsible for 70% of all unpaid taxes.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) July 10, 2020
It's the wealthy and corporations who are gaming the system, not the poor, sick, and elderly.
Taking into account not just workers, the wage gap between Black and white American men is the same as it was in the 1950s, @DLeonhardt calculates. https://t.co/nijh5AH4k5
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) July 5, 2020
These 4 figures show the stark racial economic inequality across the U.S. https://t.co/5LRXG4Hm4p
— CNBC (@CNBC) June 30, 2020
Black families in the U.S. have 90% less wealth than white families—the gap has worsened over time (via @CNBCMakeIt) https://t.co/NPQQjaSOxL
— CNBC (@CNBC) June 27, 2020
In 2016, Black Americans earned 65% as much as white Americans at the median, up slightly from 59% in 1970 https://t.co/6fse2MAPfk See more on inequality at https://t.co/PrxB28cXSb pic.twitter.com/hx1QBPYQ7w
— Rakesh Kochhar (@RakeshKochhar) June 26, 2020
Thread: Published this piece yesterday aiming to dispel a couple of pesky myths about race/inequality in the US. One of which being that the Civil Rights Movement ended racial economic inequities. It did not. https://t.co/fJv7OG2w94
— Aaron Ross Coleman (@arcwrites) June 20, 2020
Sad! 