All Posts Tagged With: "income gap"
They’re Not Insulting Our Mothers
That the wealth of the nonrich has grown is no reason to be complacent about corporatism. It simply shows that something less than complete freedom goes a long way.
4Nov2011 | Sheldon Richman | 33 comments | ContinuedBook Reviews – June 2007
- Hitlers Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State
by Goetz Aly Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling
- The Big Ripoff: How Big Business and Big Government Steal Your Money
by Timothy P. Carney Reviewed by Sheldon Richman
- Income and Wealth
by Alan Reynolds Reviewed by George C. Leef
- The Sarbanes-Oxley Debacle What We Have Learned; How to Fix It
by Henry N. Butler and Larry E. Ribstein Reviewed by Barbara Hunter
- The Joy of SOX: Why Sarbanes-Oxley and Service-Oriented Architecture May Be the Best Thing That Ever Happened to You
by Hugh Taylor Reviewed by Barbara Hunter
Economic Mobility Is a Sham?
In “Why Decry the Wealth Gap?” (New York Times, January 24, 2000), W. Michael Cox and Richard Alm say the Federal Reserve Bank’s latest survey of consumer finances showed, in a nutshell, that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. Cox and Alm’s response is: So what? High school dropouts average [...]
1Jul2000 | David Schmidtz | 2 comments | ContinuedPulling Us Apart
Recently, two Washington, D.C., think tanks—the Economic Policy Institute and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities—issued a study of the income gap between rich and poor American families titled “Pulling Apart.” According to the authors, by the late 1990s average income among families in the top 20 percent (top quintile) of the income distribution [...]
1May2000 | Charles W. Baird | 0 comments | ContinuedGrowing Income Disparity
No matter how you may gather the data, the gap between the most affluent Americans and everyone else is widening. According to a Census Bureau report, the share of national income going to the top 20 percent of households increased from 40.5 percent to 46.9 percent between 1968 and 1994. Since 1994 the trend has [...]
1Sep1996 | Hans F. Sennholz | 1 comment | Continued-
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