Amid discussions of the growing wealth gap between the richest Americans and everyone else, one place that gap plays out may be surprising. Income inequality impacts charitable giving, from who gives to where they send their money. It may even change how charities are...
Growing up in Utah as the child of Nigerian immigrants, Tope Folarin could never forget that he was different. He was reminded on the playground, when another child tried to rub the brown off his skin and started to cry when he couldn’t. And he was reminded by the...
The growth of income equality has been one of the big economic stories of the last five years. “Income disparities have become so pronounced that America’s top 10 percent now average nearly nine times as much income as the bottom 90 percent. Americans in the top 1...
An April 7 report from the Institute for Policy Studies says that the averted government shutdown and proposed austerity changes are unnecessary, if the U.S. would shift the tax burden to the rich and make income less concentrated at the top.
