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

The Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality has 20 charts and accompanying explanations documenting recent changes in inequality:

20 Facts About U.S. Inequality that Everyone Should Know, The Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality: Click an image to learn more about a fact...

Here's a list of the images/links: 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.

Somehow, we must do better at sharing the gains from economic growth across the population.

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