Rent has nearly doubled as a share of a poorer family’s spending.
Every year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics tells us what the typical American spends on everything from his rent to his reading material. There’s just one problem. In a country with growing income inequality, the typical American leaves out a lot of Americans.
Continue reading… “How rich and poor Americans spend money now and 30 years ago”
15% of Americans older than 18 don’t use the Internet.
Jim Crawford, sixty-three years old and retired from a career as a welder, doesn’t have much use for the Internet. Crawford, who lives in Manhattan, Kan. said, “I never had to use it on the job and didn’t have to use it at home for any reason. So I never really learned to do it — and never really got interested.”
Continue reading… “Widening gap between those who use the internet and those who don’t”
The very wealthiest Americans earned more than 19 percent of the country’s household income last year.
The gap between the richest 1 percent and the rest of America is the widest it has been since the Roaring ’20s.
Continue reading… “Wealthiest 1% earn biggest share since 1920’s”
The real gap isn’t between men and women doing the same job. It’s between the different jobs that men and women take.
Women earn “only 72 percent, as much as their male counterparts” is probably the most famous statistic about female workers in the U.S. But it is also famously false.
Continue reading… “Is the gender wage gap a myth?”
The jobs where the gap is biggest pay more, on average, than the jobs where the gap is lowest.
On average, women are paid significantly less than men even when they are doing the same jobs. But the gap varies dramatically for workers in different jobs.
Continue reading… “Jobs with the biggest (and smallest) wage gaps between men and women”
The difference between a man’s paycheck and a woman’s paycheck may have something to do with where people live.
Continue reading… “States with the biggest gender pay gap”
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