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University of Pittsburgh The Pitt News
February 22, 2018
The Pitt Progressives and the Students for Liberty met Wednesday night in the William Pitt Union Kurtzman Room to debate their views on the government and distribution of wealth. The Bully PulPitt and Pitt Political Science Student Association hosted “Government and the Redistribution of Wealth” debate,ÃÂ ...
Smithsonian
February 22, 2018
Analyzing dwellings in Pompeii and 62 other archaeological sites dating back 11,200 years, a team of experts has ranked the distribution of wealth in those communities. Bottom line: economic ... For each site the experts calculated the Gini coefficient, a standard measure of wealth distribution. The gap between rich andÃÂ ...
Business Insider
February 21, 2018
Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook and chair of the Economic Security Project, has a proposal to attack the problem of rising income inequality through a basic income, a system of wealth distribution in which people receive a standard salary just for being alive. And he wants to pay for it by raisingÃÂ ...
Harvard Business School Working Knowledge
February 20, 2018
Overview — Using a unique dataset for the entire Swedish population, this study of household consumption in response to changes in capital gains and dividends shows that the marginal propensity to consume (MPC) out of capital gains for households in the top 50 percent of financial wealth distribution isÃÂ ...
KGOU
February 10, 2018
In this photo taken Tuesday Aug. 6, 2013, residents of Puros, northern Namibia, stand at the entrance of a shop in the deserted town. Jerome Delay / AP. Sharing small amounts of money with poor people can help alleviate poverty and spur economic growth. In his book Give a Man a Fish: Reflections onÃÂ ...
MLive.com
January 30, 2018
Rabhi said he thinks Trump doesn't care about average working Americans and he argues Trump's tax plan amounts to a massive distribution of wealth to "rich billionaire cronies." He also takes issue with Trump's immigration crackdown, saying his administration has shown a "complete lack of humanity,"ÃÂ ...
Tampabay.com
January 30, 2018
Besides Brazil's inequalities in wealth distribution, the group complains about last year's labor law changes that scaled back benefits and made it easier for employers to hire temporary workers. Members also oppose proposals in Congress to cut pension benefits for future retirees. "It's not just racismÃÂ ...
The Spokesman-Review
January 28, 2018
Gini coefficients measure inequality – a Gini coefficient of 0 would reflect a perfectly equal distribution of wealth, while a 1 would indicate one person ... “These processes increased inequality by operating on both ends of the wealth distribution, increasing the holdings of the rich while decreasing those ofÃÂ ...
Harvard Crimson
January 26, 2018
This queasiness isn't about the unequal distribution of wealth, the social power of WASPs and other modern deplorables, or even racism, sexism, cissexism, ableism, or any other “ism” coined thirty seconds ago that will send you running for Urban Dictionary. It's more to do with Harvard students' dispositionÃÂ ...
Seeking Alpha
January 26, 2018
My overriding long-term premise that supports investing in 2x Leveraged ETNs such as CEFL, is based on worldwide shifts in income and wealth distribution that increase the supply of investable funds. Decades ago, in what was once called the "second-world", the communist countries, the supply ofÃÂ ...
The FINANCIAL
January 25, 2018
The FINANCIAL -- Americans' satisfaction with four fundamental measures of the nation's status -- the overall quality of life, morality, opportunity and wealth distribution -- has been fairly steady as the country transitioned from a Democratic administration to a Republican one in the past year. But beneath theÃÂ ...
Oneindia
January 24, 2018
The richest 1% in India cornered 73% of the wealth generated in the country last year, a new survey showed today, presenting a worrying picture of rising income inequality. Besides, 67 crore Indians comprising the population's poorest half saw their wealth+ rise by just 1%, as per the survey by theÃÂ ...
The Quint
January 24, 2018
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday, 23 January, hit back at Congress president Rahul Gandhi for his remarks targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi over uneven distribution of wealth in India, saying it was the result of the Gandhi family's patented "poverty perpetuation" governance model.
Business Standard
January 23, 2018
Rahul Gandhi and the BJP today locked horns over inequitable distribution of wealth in India, with the Congress president asking Prime Minister Narendra Modi to tell people in Davos why one per cent of the country's population has 73 per cent of its wealth. The BJP hit right back, saying it was the result ofÃÂ ...
India Today
January 23, 2018
New Delhi, Jan 23 (PTI) Rahul Gandhi and the BJP today locked horns over inequitable distribution of wealth in India, with the Congress president asking Prime Minister Narendra Modi to tell people in Davos why one per cent of the countrys population has 73 per cent of its wealth. The BJP hit right back,ÃÂ ...
Project Syndicate
January 19, 2018
The relationship between inequality and growth has become a hot topic for economists, with new research challenging the conventional view that greater inequality is the price that must be paid for higher output. But for policymakers, this debate is a distraction; the real question is how to assess outcomesÃÂ ...
News & Observer
January 18, 2018
To confront the outrageous American distribution of wealth, we contend that every child should be given a trust fund, not just the children of the rich. Each newborn infant should receive a “baby bond,” financed by the federal government, giving them a foundation for asset-building and economic securityÃÂ ...
BusinessTech
December 31, 1999
UK think tank Oxfam late last month published a report highlighting the disparate levels of inequality in the world. Among many of the claims within the report, one pointed directly to South Africa, where the group said that the top 10% of South Africans receive half of all wage income, while the bottom 50% ofÃÂ ...
The Times
December 31, 1999
Britain is an unequal society. On the central question of what is the right level of equality in society, economists don't have any special expertise: it's a matter of values on which people can reasonably differ. But economists can explain why there are extremes in the distribution of wealth and of incomes.
SPIEGEL ONLINE
December 31, 1999
That data shows an extremely unequal wealth distribution. But in reality, wealth is even more concentrated than the data shows, because the statistics have a blind spot: The superrich and their assets are consistently underestimated. This is because, on the one hand, there are so few of them that they aren'tÃÂ ...
NEWS.com.au
December 31, 1999
Australia's staggering wealth distribution is laid bare in a new report from Oxfam Australia. How the rich pay less taxSource:Supplied. IF YOU feel like you've been struggling to keep up with the cost of living, you can blame Australia's lack of wage growth. Or, if you'd like to take a more bitter approach, directÃÂ ...
Boing Boing
December 9, 2017
The wealth transfer over that period went primarily from the middle class to the rich (America's poor are out of money and credit, so wealth transfers are moving up the pyramid of wealth-distribution). Note that this number is different from the annual Unicef headline figure of 8, or 4, or 3 richest people on ...
Seeking Alpha
December 8, 2017
Blogger Christopher Ingraham describes this distribution of wealth in terms of how much pie each segment of society gets. He writes: The top 20 percent of households actually own a whopping 90 percent of the stuff in America — 90 slices of pie! That's exactly 4½ slices per person…That leaves just 10 ...
MetroWest Daily News
December 1, 2017
It's not enough to give money to rich people. Apparently, Republicans want to kick the poor and middle class in the face, too. I used to think the Republican Party's obsession with top-heavy tax cuts was about pleasing wealthy donors and maybe also fulfilling some misguided Randian fantasy. If the poor ...
Philippine Star
November 21, 2017
In terms of wealth distribution, only 0.1 percent of the Philippines' adult population have fortunes amounting to over $1 million. ... inequality expressed as a number from 0 to 100, where a higher number indicates a more unequal distribution of wealth—to 83.9 percent, a tad higher than 2016's 83.4 percent.
Next Big Future
November 18, 2017
Without information on wealth distribution in countries and provinces, this information is somewhat meaningless...Of course, it would be ...
Khaleej Times
November 18, 2017
... population in 2017 which will expand up to 45 per cent by 2022, forecasts Euromonitor International's Income and Wealth Distribution model.
HuffPost
November 17, 2017
The artwork has been hotly debated for years, but its sale signals one thing absolutely: a “very unequal, even obscene distribution of wealth in ...
Sun.Star
November 16, 2017
Other than that, it is not this sector's responsibility for wealth distribution. The thing is, these parties are just playing the role that the economy ...
The Edge Markets MY
November 16, 2017
KUALA LUMPUR: The Budget 2018's focus on distribution of wealth puts Malaysia on the right path, but there must be accountability for how ...
Laboratory Equipment
November 16, 2017
... coefficient to calculate the distribution of wealth in specific societies. ... by operating on both ends of the wealth distribution, increasing the ...
Livemint
November 15, 2017
Credit Suisse's latest annual Global Wealth Report says India is home to 245,000 dollar millionaires. The country has a share of 0.7% of the ...
Washington Examiner
November 9, 2017
The bottom 50 percent of any wealth distribution have very little of total wealth, perhaps 4 percent or so. (The U.S. might be a little different from ...
Primenewsghana
November 8, 2017
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has assured Ghanaians that his government would ensure a fair and equitable distribution of state ...
Disruptive Competition Project
November 3, 2017
... that “antitrust law unquestionably affects wealth distribution. ... quality, than their rivals may or may not lead to equitable distribution of wealth.
Duke Today
October 27, 2017
Five decades later, Kozol continues to strive for the distribution of wealth in education. Drawing upon his classroom experiences in poor, urban ...
San Diego Free Press
October 24, 2017
Do you think you have a good picture of how unequal the distribution of wealth is in the United States? A 2010 survey by Harvard economist ...
Valley News
October 23, 2017
It's about the 40 years leading up to his election: The growth of distrust in government; growing injustice in our distribution of wealth; lack of ...
The Oakland Press
October 16, 2017
A lecture on the campus of Lawrence Technological University next month will explore the unequal distribution of wealth in the United States.
Big Think
October 15, 2017
After all, since the Reagan “supply-side” tax cuts of the 1980, good new American jobs haven't materialized Instead, the distribution of wealth in ...
Moneyweb.co.za
October 13, 2017
One could argue further that all of that is due to a very narrow focus on wealth distribution; on reward rather than contribution, which translates ...
Malta Independent Online
October 4, 2017
Ensuring that wealth is distributed to more people and developing a long-term strategy for the economy. Delia was addressing the Malta ...
Times of Malta
October 3, 2017
But it is inescapable that more remains to be done to ensure a fairer distribution of wealth. The poor will always be with us but it is the job of ...
Jacobin magazine
October 1, 2017
First, let's look at the wealth level at each percentile of the wealth distribution. Since wealth is so overwhelmingly concentrated at the top of ...
National Observer
September 29, 2017
Today, he's proposing to shake-up the distribution of wealth in Canada, introducing a series of national programs to expand and improve ...
Charlotte magazine
December 31, 1999
There's another trend, though, that becomes apparent when you plot the incidents on a map of Mecklenburg County: They create a pattern that roughly mimics the distribution of wealth here. Fatal car versus pedestrian wrecks rarely happen in the wedge of wealth in south Charlotte. Just as the city's less ...
Jacobin magazine
December 31, 1999
To get a full picture of how strange the resulting racial wealth distribution would be, consider the following graph, which is complicated on first ...
The Market Mogul
October 3, 2017
The financial industry may experience changes as far as the accumulation and distribution of wealth are concerned. The government willÃÂ ...
Philippine Star
October 3, 2017
Distribution of wealth is going to the provincial areas. Right now, our businesses have been developing throughout the country,” Sy-Coson saidÃÂ ...
Times of Malta
October 2, 2017
It stressed that the underlying message of the document was that economic growth needed to be translated into fair distribution of wealth.
