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”
Sharp decline in marriage over the last 50 years.
The transformative trends of the past 50 years that have led to a sharp decline in marriage and a rise of new family forms have been shaped by attitudes and behaviors that differ by class, age and race, according to a new Pew Research Center nationwide survey, conducted in association with TIME magazine, and complemented by an analysis of demographic and economic data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Continue reading… “Pew Research – Marriage Declines, New Families Rise”
Camden Harbor, Maine, where civic leaders have taken notice of a decline in population and are mapping strategies to reverse the trend.
Trendy Brevetto Kitchen & Wine Bar is bustling on a recent Thursday, but not with a typical happy hour crowd. Less rowdy and mostly professional, the men and women wearing name tags are not here to hook up but link up. They’re members of Midcoast Magnet, one of several regional groups working to halt a population slide in one of the USA’s most picturesque states.
Continue reading… “Maine Tries to Tackle Shrinking Population”
China has 32 million more young men than young women – a gender gap that could lead to increasing crime – because parents facing strict birth limits abort female fetuses to have a son, a study released Friday said.
Continue reading… “Study: China’s Birth Limits Could Lead To Increasing Crime”
When men and women take personality tests, some of the old Mars-Venus stereotypes keep reappearing. On average, women are more cooperative, nurturing, cautious and emotionally responsive. Men tend to be more competitive, assertive, reckless and emotionally flat. Clear differences appear in early childhood and never disappear.
Continue reading… “Gender Gaps Widen As Some Barriers Disappear”
In a poll by the National Women’s Law Center, women were more likely than men to feel that they are falling behind economically. They worry more about their financial future. For many women, the concerns are not unfounded. More than 14 million women live in poverty. More than 17 million have no health insurance. On average, women earn only 77 cents for every dollar paid to men.
Continue reading… “Women and the Confidence Gap”
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