The wage gap between White and Black Americans has widened in the past 20 years to roughly $33,000 per U.S. households — and we all pay a price for it.@tonydokoupil takes a look at what this actually means for Americans' wallets. pic.twitter.com/VRRn5iYXcY
— CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) February 15, 2021
Due to COVID, Americans’ life expectancy has dropped 1.2 years. For Black Americans, it’s down 2.1 years; for Latinos, 3 years. https://t.co/EnHSeMJZMR
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) February 14, 2021
Anyone see a pattern here? pic.twitter.com/A0QqLGQ7EV
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) February 6, 2021
World's richest people added $1.8 trillion to their combined wealth in 2020 https://t.co/26zolHwal2 pic.twitter.com/lyBOxn1pZy
— The Hill (@thehill) January 2, 2021
One thing here is "inequality" denotes several different possible forms of inequality.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) December 30, 2020
This has not been a "billionaires vs the 99 percent" kind of inequality moment, it's more like "a broad class of comfortable people vs another broad class of precarious ones." https://t.co/wsQxQgjbLd
The Covid Divide: The pandemic economy has hurt some, but helped others – CNN
The real looting in America. https://t.co/HSGO3c19nS
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) September 15, 2020
If income had been distributed as evenly over the past five decades as it was in 1970, the median full-time worker in the U.S. would now take home $92,000 a year (instead of $50,000), according to a new RAND study. https://t.co/q16D0bZjYU
— Eric Levitz (@EricLevitz) September 14, 2020
Sad! 