Working 3 Jobs and 7 Days a Week to Get By - Massachusetts news. Confederate flag at heart of why NAACP is upset at NCAA. South Carolina is hosting an NCAA tournament game for the first time in 13 years, and there are more than a few members of the NAACP who aren't happy about it.
The Palmetto State is under an NCAA tournament ban because it flies the Confederate flag on the statehouse grounds. But the organization is allowing the SEC champion Gamecocks to host games this weekend because of a new format delegating home dates to top-16 seeds in March Madness. Dealing with inequality. Asking the simplest question amid a sea of statistics about income gaps and metaphors about rising tides and economic ladders, Harvard Kennedy School Dean David T.
Ellwood stumped a session that was called to discuss “The Growing Challenge of Inequality.” “What are we going to do about it?” Ellwood asked at the John F. Bill Gates' solution to income inequality - Fortune. Why income inequality is America’s biggest (and most difficult) problem. Bold prediction: Rising inequality of income and wealth will be the most important political battleground over the next few decades.
Just take a look at the figures. The share of income accruing to the top 1 percent increased from 9 percent in 1976 to 20 percent in 2011. The richest 0.1 percent controlled 7 percent of the wealth in 1979 and 22 percent of the wealth in 2012. Meanwhile, there are a number of studies out there showing that the most effective way to reduce this inequality would be higher taxes on income and wealth, but the rich won’t let it happen.
Consider also this: The rise of income inequality and wealth inequality are intimately connected, and causes all sorts of problem over the long term. Most Americans are one paycheck away from the street. Americans are feeling better about their job security and the economy, but most are theoretically only one paycheck away from the street.
Approximately 62% of Americans have no emergency savings for things such as a $1,000 emergency room visit or a $500 car repair, according to a new survey of 1,000 adults by personal finance website Bankrate.com. Faced with an emergency, they say they would raise the money by reducing spending elsewhere (26%), borrowing from family and/or friends (16%) or using credit cards (12%). “Emergency savings are not just critical for weathering an emergency, they’re also important for successful homeownership and retirement saving,” says Signe-Mary McKernan, senior fellow and economist at the Urban Institute, a nonprofit organization that focuses on social and economic policy.
[Get the Latest Market Data and News with the Yahoo Finance App] The Secret History of Women in the Senate - Liza Mundy - POLITICO Magazine. Inside San Jose's Tent City. Whole Foods Detroit: Can a grocery store really fight elitism, racism, and obesity? Staggering racial disparity in U.S. arrest rates. As Ferguson, Mo., braces for the decision by a grand jury that is considering whether to indict a white police officer in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager — which sparked protests over alleged police bias — there is evidence the St.
Louis suburb isn't alone when it comes to racial disparity. According to USA Today — which compared arrests reported by local police departments to the FBI in 2011 and 2012 with data from the 2010 U.S. census — at least 1,581 police departments arrest black people at a higher rate than Ferguson, where blacks are arrested nearly three times more than people of other races.
Wrong Zip Code Can Mean Shorter Life Expectancy. The Treme neighborhood is only a few miles from the Lakeview neighborhood in New Orleans, but in terms of life expectancy those few miles might as well be worlds away.
While residents in Lakeview have a life expectancy of approximately 80 years, which is slightly more than the U.S. average of 79 years, the life expectancy for Treme residents is only 54.5 years, which is lower than the life expectancy in Cambodia, Gabon or Guinea. A series of maps recently released by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the largest U.S. philanthropy organization devoted to public health, was designed to draw attention to the fact that, in many cities, different neighborhoods can have vastly different life expectancies, some on par with the life expectancies of developing countries.
Candidate: ‘We Would be Totally Right’ to Stone Gays to Death - Nation. A little-known Oklahoma state house primary candidate is getting some national attention this week, after a local magazine found Facebook comments he made last year that appear to endorse killing homosexuals—via stoning, specifically.
Republican Scott Esk made the comments on another user’s link to a BBC article which quotes Pope Francis last July telling reporters “if a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge?” Esk responds by quoting Bible verses from the book of Romans and Leviticus which some Christians interpret to condemn homosexual behavior.
Adam Bates, the Facebook user who posted the original link, replied that only God has final judgment over the sins of man. Advertisement—Continue Reading Below. What's the Deal with...Food Deserts. Map of Human Struggle. McDonald's Employee and Single Mother Detained for Confronting Company President About Worker Pay. Where Americans—Rich and Poor—Spent Every Dollar in 2012. Here it is, fresh from the Bureau of Labor Statistics: all of American spending in one big color wheel.
Since some of you (inexplicably) don't like pie charts, here's the same data in bars. Averages are misleading, particularly when the rich are running away from the rest. So, digging deeper into BLS data, I broke out percent spending by category for the richest and poorest 20 percent. For the poor, food, clothes, and housing account for more than 60 percent of all spending.
Richest 1 percent earn biggest share since '20s. WASHINGTON (AP) -- The gulf between the richest 1 percent and the rest of America is the widest it's been since the Roaring '20s.
The very wealthiest Americans earned more than 19 percent of the country's household income last year — their biggest share since 1928, the year before the stock market crash. And the top 10 percent captured a record 48.2 percent of total earnings last year. U.S. income inequality has been growing for almost three decades. And it grew again last year, according to an analysis of Internal Revenue Service figures dating to 1913 by economists at the University of California, Berkeley, the Paris School of Economics and Oxford University. One of them, Berkeley's Emmanuel Saez, said the incomes of the richest Americans surged last year in part because they cashed in stock holdings to avoid higher capital gains taxes that took effect in January.
Save the Darfur Puppy. Transitional Justice. Income Inequality vs. Wealth Inequality. Photo by Katrina Charmatz via Getty Images Paul Solman answers questions from the NewsHour audience on business and economic news here on his Making Sen$e page.
Here is Friday’s query: David G: I keep seeing an argument that says that income inequality is not as bad as statistics make it appear because poor people receive government benefits (or can — perhaps they don’t). Your friend Bob Lerman seems to feel this way. It is my position that the financial securities owned by a wealthy person are much closer to being actual income than any benefit a poor person may receive. Non-profit turns to Indiegogo to help spread clean water and women’s entrepreneurship - Inside the Hive. Today’s World Water Day, and one Innovation District non-profit is using the opportunity to tap Indiegogo to help expand its water purification efforts while helping launch a network of women entrepreneurs in rural Ghana. Since 2008, Community Water Solutions has worked with villages around Tamale, Ghana, to set up basic water purification systems. The systems are simple, inexpensive, and effective, according to co-founder and executive director Kate Clopeck: The consist of large, concrete basins and three large buckets.
The water is then treated with chlorine and a coagulant called alum. Continue Reading Below. Wal-Mart Workers' Black Friday Strike. America’s biggest retailer may be in for an unexpectedly painful holiday season. Protesting low wages, spiking health care premiums, and alleged retaliation from management, Wal-Mart Stores workers have started to walk off the job this week. First, on Wednesday, about a dozen workers in Wal-Mart’s distribution warehouses in Southern California walked out, followed the next day by 30 more from six stores in the Seattle area. The workers, who are part of a union-backed employee coalition called Making Change at Wal-Mart, say this is the beginning of a wave of protests and strikes leading up to next week’s Black Friday.
Wealth Inequality in America. In Asking About Income Inequality, Obama Begins With The Wrong Question. People Power Section 6: Soweto, South Africa. Krpano.com - EBC_Pumori_050112_8bit_FLAT. Is There Really A 'Line' For Immigration? Copyright © 2013 NPR. Why We Need Labor Unions After All.
Truth and Reconciliation Commission. One billion slum dwellers. Wealth, Income, and Power. By G. William Domhoff This document presents details on the wealth and income distributions in the United States, and explains how we use these two distributions as power indicators. Comparing The United States to Honduras. The GINI index measures the degree of inequality in the distribution of family income. In Honduras is 53.80 while in The United States it is 45.00. This index measures the degree of inequality in the distribution of family income in a country.
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