20 Facts About U.S. Inequality that Everyone Should Know

This is a comprehensive array of graphs to illustrate how pervasive the problem of inequality in the U.S. has become.  H/tip Jesse.

Courtesy of The Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality Mission

20 Facts about U.S. Inequality that Everyone Should Know [Click an image to learn more about a fact!]

	Wage Inequality		CEO pay		Homelessness		Education Wage Premium
	Gender Pay Gaps		Occupational Sex Segregation		Racial Gaps in Education		Racial Discrimination
	Child Poverty		Residential Segregation		Health Insurance		Intragenerational Income Mobility
	Bad Jobs		Discouraged Workers		Wealth Inequality		Intergenerational Income Mobility
	Deregulation of the Labor Market		Job Losses		Immigrants and Inequality		Productivity and Real Income

Mission Statement

The Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality seeks answers to two questions:

      1. Why is the United States so unequal and poverty-stricken?
      2. What can or should be done about it?

The facts are stark…

• Income inequality is extreme and increasing: The top 1% of Americans control 23.5% of all the country’s income, the highest share controlled by the top 1% since 1928
• The U.S. is exceptionally unequal:The U.S. ranks #3 among all the advanced economies in the amount of income inequality
• The poverty rate is extremely high:The U.S. poverty rate, according to the new National Academy of Science index, is estimated at 15.8 percent. Only one advanced economy, Mexico, has a higher relative poverty rate

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