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Policy Matters Ohio's "State of Working Ohio 2022" report, authored by Shields, notes that the racial pay gap persists across union membership rates and educational attainment levels, though union membership narrows it. (crainscleveland.com)
In 2022, 75% of our income supported sustainability programs. (rainforest-alliance.org)
According to a YouGov survey from January 2022, Americans believe that 10% of households in the country have an annual income of more than $1 million but this is way off. (mountaintimes.info)
The sharp uptick has rendered pay rises in the beginning of 2022 irrelevant, stoking real income losses. (al-monitor.com)

Much has been written about income inequality. (fraserinstitute.org)
You can hardly find a current affairs magazine, newspaper or television program that has not dealt with income inequality recently. (fraserinstitute.org)
Tech success has not only increased wealth in the region, but also housing prices, which has led to the highest level of income inequality in our history. (nbcbayarea.com)
Housing is the No. 1 reason income inequality in the Bay Area is at all-time highs, according to the Joint Venture Silicon Valley. (nbcbayarea.com)
WASHINGTON (PAI)-In a wide-ranging speech on the state of the economy, President Obama took sharp aim at income inequality, citing the growing gulf between the rich and the rest of us. (peoplesworld.org)
Obama's speech yesterday was his most detailed ever on the ways income inequality harms individuals, hurts the economy and destroys trust in both institutions and the nation as a whole. (peoplesworld.org)
According to Closing the Racial Inequality Gaps: the Economic Costs of Black Inequality in the U.S., published by Citi Global Perspective and Solutions, centuries of bias and institutionalized segregation have generated grave societal and economic losses that reverberate throughout America. (atlantatribune.com)
Many people realize the rich are getting richer, but the full extent of growing income inequality is hard to believe. (nationalmemo.com)
The gap in females by income level was smaller than that in males, which can be because males have greater inequality in terms of HALE by income level. (researchsquare.com)
Results suggest that there is an inequality in years of living with disability in terms of income level in Korea. (researchsquare.com)
A new report highlights the role of America's underlying economic structure in producing racial inequality, challenging conventionally held myths that behavioral changes are the key to close the gaping wealth gap between white and black Americans. (nextcity.org)
As a result, the general population is more immigrant-friendly and income inequality is dampened. (lu.se)

BOSTON - February 22, 2023 - Obtaining a job with family sustaining wages is critical to reducing the income and family wealth gap that exists between Black and white Americans. (bain.com)

The government should adopt policies to reduce the gap between the income levels of each class, and help increase the overall wages of households," Rep. Jin said. (koreatimes.co.kr)
The researchers found that the racial wealth gap applies even to the country's wealthiest families: Black children whose parents were in the top 1 percent of earners, with incomes at an average of $1.1 million, grew up to have incomes 12.4 percent lower than white children who grew up in households with similar incomes. (npr.org)
Adjusting for inflation, average incomes among those in the top fifth of households more than doubled from 1977-79 to 2005-07, from $107,554 to $226,237 - a gain of $118,682, or 110 percent. (ctnewsjunkie.com)
The importance of segmenting smallholder households and conducting deeper analysis on group characteristics was emphasised as a way to create appropriate financial products for leveraging incomes. (isealalliance.org)
The difference between perception and facts is even more pronounced when looking at households with an annual income of more than $500,000. (mountaintimes.info)
71% of low-income households experienced at least one civil legal problem in the last year, including problems with health care, housing conditions, disability access, veterans' benefits, and domestic violence. (palegalaid.net)
The income gap among Japan's households has remained close to the record-high disparity logged in 2014, a government survey conducted in 2021 showed Tuesday, with the coronavirus pandemic likely having hit temp workers hard. (nippon.com)

But those racial income and wealth gaps are long-term, historical problems, and there haven't yet been sustained pushes to close them, said economist Dionissi Aliprantis. (crainscleveland.com)
Helping more people achieve higher levels of education may not close the racial income or wealth gaps, but could improve individual lives on a personal level. (crainscleveland.com)

While incomes at the 95th to 99th percentiles - all solid six-figure earners - have enjoyed modest growth over the last two decades, top 1 percent incomes have soared and now constitute nearly 30 percent of all Connecticut adjusted gross income, the report found. (ctnewsjunkie.com)
Admittedly the two groups say there are forces outside policymakers' control, but they do offer a few suggestions for leveling the playing field such as increasing the minimum wage, shoring up the unemployment insurance system, and increasing income taxes on the top earners while making the entire tax system fairer and more progressive. (ctnewsjunkie.com)
However, increasing income taxes on the state's top earners hasn't been a winning formula in the past. (ctnewsjunkie.com)
Rachel A. J. Pownall, who prepared the European Fine Art Fair's 2017 Art Market Report, said that "the gap has become greater" between smaller and larger art galleries, mirroring an increasing income gap between top and bottom tier earners in the economy. (nonprofitquarterly.org)
Along with wage- and salary-earners, agricultural producers, too, have taken severe blows from inflation, with the gap between agricultural product prices and industrial prices growing to the detriment of farmers. (al-monitor.com)

Based on tax records data from Ecuador, we analyse gender differences in top income groups from 2008 to 2017. (unu.edu)
That marks a significant jump compared to years past - with gross tax gap projections standing at $550 billion for 2017-2019 and $496 billion for 2014-2016. (wxpr.org)
The gross tax gap for 2017-2019, for example, was initially expected to be $540 billion, but climbed $10 billion in later estimates. (wxpr.org)
This study explores the extent of the justice gap in 2017, describing the volume of civil legal needs faced by low-income Americans, assessing the extent to which they seek and receive help, and measuring the size of the gap between their civil legal needs and the resources available to address these needs. (palegalaid.net)
The Legal Services Corporation contracted with NORC at the University of Chicago to help measure the justice gap among low-income Americans in 2017. (palegalaid.net)
In 2017, low-income Americans will approach LSC-funded legal aid organizations for support with an estimated 1.7 million problems. (palegalaid.net)
The key parameter for measuring income inequalities, known as the Gini coefficient, came to 0.5700, worsening 0.0106 point from the previous study in 2017, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry said. (nippon.com)
The 2017 figure showed a slight improvement from 2014, when the gap marked the highest-ever 0.5704. (nippon.com)
Bergh, A 2017, ' Explaining the labor market gaps between immigrants and natives in the OECD ', Migration Letters , vol. 14, nr. 2, 745. (lu.se)

Banks and big companies have benefited from Ankara's controversial policy to keep interest rates low, while soaring inflation eats into the real income of the wage-earning masses. (al-monitor.com)
Turkey's galloping inflation, on course to top 100% in the fall, has been causing daunting income transfers from the poor to the rich, worsening further the income distribution gap in the country, economic data show. (al-monitor.com)
It was meant as a six-month adjustment to inflation, but given the 51.4% consumer inflation in the eight months to March, those pensioners suffered significant income loss in real terms despite the rise. (al-monitor.com)
That sum reached 6,674 liras ($455) after a 32% increase in January, but public servants have seen their pay rise fall behind inflation since February and will have to put up with significant real income losses until July, when the next hike will be announced. (al-monitor.com)
Farmers are another group suffering real income losses from inflation, with the prices of agricultural producers falling well behind those of industrial producers. (al-monitor.com)

The Illinois Asset Building Group estimates that 51 percent of African-Americans and 48 percent of Latinos in Illinois live in asset poverty , meaning they are unable to get by at the federal poverty level for three months if income is disrupted. (woodstockinst.org)
With an eye towards including assets in the national conversation about poverty and what families need to achieve economic security, WOW released new standards for measuring how much income workers and their families need to meet basic expenses and save for emergencies, retirement, and secondary education. (woodstockinst.org)
We sought to (1) characterize the prevalence of food insecurity among immigrants (i.e., noncitizens and naturalized citizens) and U.S.-born citizens and (2) determine whether Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program utilization and income-poverty ratio levels impact the relationship between immigration status and food insecurity. (bvsalud.org)
Independent variables included immigration status, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program utilization, income-poverty ratio, and other important demographics. (bvsalud.org)
However, the association between immigration status and food insecurity varied significantly at different levels of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program utilization and income-poverty ratio. (bvsalud.org)
There were no food insecurity disparities between immigrants and U.S.-born citizens when they utilized the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and when they had an income below 200% federal poverty level. (bvsalud.org)
Noncitizens who did not utilize the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or those with an income above 200% federal poverty level were more likely to report food insecurity than their U.S.-born counterparts (AOR=1.32, 95% CI=1.01, 1.73 and AOR=1.88, 95% CI=1.24, 2.86, respectively). (bvsalud.org)
Moreover, naturalized citizens with an income above 200% federal poverty level were also more likely to report food insecurity than their U.S.-born counterparts (AOR=1.61, 95% CI=1.21, 2.14). (bvsalud.org)
In addition, among individuals with incomes above 200% federal poverty level, significant food insecurity disparities were observed between immigrants and U.S.-born citizens. (bvsalud.org)

There's no doubt that there has become a growing concern about the income disparity in the United States. (bigthink.com)
But there's no doubt that the income disparity in our country has increased, and we should do some things to deal with it as soon as we can. (bigthink.com)
According to Statista: "Despite wealth disparity in the United States being a much-discussed topic over the past decades, the true size of the income gaps between the top 1% and the rest of the population is consistently perceived as smaller than it is. (mountaintimes.info)
This disparity is called the "wealth gap. (woodstockinst.org)
Longer commute times and greater retail gaps may contribute to the rural obesity disparity. (cdc.gov)
However, there is little evidence on their role on disparities in life expectancy (LE) and life disparity (LD) in low and middle income countries. (lu.se)

He and Aliprantis, an associate vice president and senior research economist at the Cleveland Fed, are the authors of "What Is Behind the Persistence of the Racial Wealth Gap? (crainscleveland.com)
Finally, we observe a high degree of persistence in top incomes across gender, with around 80 per cent of individuals in the top 10 per cent group remaining in this group from year to year. (unu.edu)

The principles include a relentless "growth agenda," though Obama warned growth alone would not guarantee higher wages and incomes. (peoplesworld.org)
In the same way that a growing gap between the rich and poor leaves a space where nonprofits fight for fair wages, access to housing and healthcare, and education, the growing gap between ultra-rich art dealers and small galleries who can afford to take risks will leave many unrepresented artists out of the loop, and many communities without a viable channel to the art world. (nonprofitquarterly.org)
A 2016 study found that for every US dollar invested in vaccination in the world's 94 lowest-income countries, US$16 can be saved in healthcare costs, lost wages and lost productivity due to illness and death. (bmj.com)

Life expectancy in the U.S. dropped faster during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic than in other industrialized nations, accelerating a gap that was already widening, according to a new study. (contemporarypediatrics.com)
The study's authors used official death counts to calculate life expectancy in the U.S. by sex and ethnicity in 2019 and 2020 and compared the outcomes with those in 21 other high-income countries. (contemporarypediatrics.com)

But the widening gap started speeding up in 2020 when the pandemic lockdown started affecting every corner of the economy. (koreatimes.co.kr)
For tax years 2021 and 2020, the latest to receive such IRS estimates, the projected gross "tax gap" soared to $688 billion and $601 billion, respectively. (wxpr.org)
Economic growth data by the Turkish Statistical Institute show that payments to employees last year dropped to 30.2% of gross value added from 33.1% in 2020, while the share of net operating surplus/mixed income, earned by employers, rose to 52.6% from 49.3% in the same period. (al-monitor.com)

In 2016, the gap in HALE between Q1 and Q2, the lower income group, was about 5.10 years. (researchsquare.com)
In a testament to the remarkable resiliency of physicians' income, three of the specialties with double-digit growth had suffered income setbacks in 2016. (medscape.com)

Turkey's chronic income inequalities, which had already worsened in 2021, appear on course to reach staggering levels this year. (al-monitor.com)
This study aims to calculate the health-adjusted life years (HALE) by using years lived with disability from the national claims data and aims to identify the differences and inequalities in income level and region. (researchsquare.com)

Employed physicians revealed their 2021 income from patient care services including salary, bonus, and profit-sharing. (medscape.com)
Physiatrists finished about in the middle of the 29+ specialties we surveyed, in terms of 2021 income gains. (medscape.com)
As for specialists, while the gender gap has narrowed in recent years, male specialists on average earned 31% more than their female counterparts in 2021. (medscape.com)
The average income for each salaried worker here reached 40.24 million won in 2021. (koreatimes.co.kr)
Those in the top 0.1 percent bracket received an annual income of 956.15 million won in 2021. (koreatimes.co.kr)
But shifts in economic activity and changes in the mix and type of income reported for 2021 are accounted for - so as total tax liability increases, so does the tax gap. (wxpr.org)
In 2021, the IRS expects to bring in $63 billion through late payments and enforcement efforts, bringing the estimated net tax gap to $625 billion. (wxpr.org)

The chasm between what white workers and Black workers are paid - and the wealth gap that results - has persisted in the decades since 1964. (crainscleveland.com)
Comparing income over the past three decades with data broken up in 20-percent increments or "fifths," the two nonprofit agencies discovered the gap between the richest and poorest in the state has grown and that it is the fastest growing gap among all states. (ctnewsjunkie.com)
As a result, these privileged few have more than doubled the slice of America's income pie that they consume, going from 8 percent to 17 percent of the whole in just three decades. (nationalmemo.com)

Closing the gap entirely is one question," he said, "and making substantial progress is a different one. (crainscleveland.com)
Through co-operation across the community of practice, experts have been able to share their experiences of the complex work of closing the income gap for farmers. (isealalliance.org)
Closing the income gap is about systemic change. (isealalliance.org)
We hope that UIUC uses this collaboration to continue to focus efforts on increasing African-American student enrollment and ultimately completely closing the relatively modest gap that does exist in degree completion for UIUC. (dailyillini.com)
Closing these gaps would facilitate inter-generational wealth creation for Black America and also expand the nation's economy by $5 trillion over the next five years. (atlantatribune.com)
Dr. Mariko Chang , author of "Shortchanged: Why women have less wealth and what can be done about it", reported that her research found that women who have never been married and work full time have made the greatest gains closing the income gap between men and women, but they still have a substantial wealth gap. (woodstockinst.org)
Globally, this implementation gap has been closing as a result of reliance on the evidence-based strategy for TB control, originally known as Directly Observed Treatment Short-course (DOTS). (cdc.gov)

How can we gain a comprehensive understanding of the economic life of low- and moderate-income communities and those experiencing disinvestment and limited growth? (newamerica.org)

The salary growth has been driven by the sharper income rise for the medium to low brackets which benefited most from the minimum wage hike over the past four years," Jin said. (koreatimes.co.kr)
Those in the middle fifth saw their incomes rise $22,190, or 40 percent, while those in the bottom fifth lost $981, or 4 percent, over the 30-year period. (ctnewsjunkie.com)
Doctors' Incomes Are on the Rise -- Is Yours? (medscape.com)

The present study aimed to assess the contributions of avoidable mortality, as a measure of inter-sectoral public health policies and healthcare quality, into the sex gap in LE (SGLE) and LD (SGLD) in Iran. (lu.se)

That percentage gap has not changed at all since the 2015 Medscape report, when specialists' earnings were also 45.6% higher-$284,000 for specialists versus $195,000 for PCPs. (medscape.com)

A new study finds that the gap is actually largest in America's wealthiest neighborhoods, challenging widely-held beliefs about the relative impacts of class and race on life outcomes. (npr.org)
America's persistent racial income and the wealth gap reality are the result of four intertwined factors: housing, education, business ownership and access to credit. (atlantatribune.com)
These few now take 6 percent of all U.S. income - the biggest piece ever consumed by America's mega-rich. (nationalmemo.com)

While we observe a significant increase in the share of women at the top of the income distribution during this period, women remain underrepresented in top income groups, at 38.7 per cent in the top 10 per cent income group and 22.8 per cent in the top 0.1 per cent income group. (unu.edu)
Lower income children whose families can't afford private tutors this fall may encounter greater loss of learning if schools remain closed. (breitbart.com)

A great many of the specialty organizations have efforts underway not just to increase the number of women in specialties but also to address gender pay gaps in evaluations during residency and fellowship," notes Ron Holder, chief operating officer of the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA). (medscape.com)
Compared with English-proficient low-income Asian American adults, those with limited English proficiency were no less likely to participate in CalFresh, possibly reflecting language assistance required by California law and provided by community-based organizations. (bvsalud.org)

The study looked at racial disparities in income over generations by looking at de-identified data from 20 million U.S. children and their parents. (npr.org)
Objectives: We examined the disparities in health-care coverage between low- and high-income workers in Washington State (WA) to provide support for possible policy decisions for uninsured workers. (cdc.gov)

The Pension Rights Center updated its aggregate U.S. retirement income deficit figure to $7.7 trillion-up from $6.6 trillion just five years earlier-in conjunction with today's retirement preparedness hearing by the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging. (pensionrights.org)

Daniel Carroll, a senior research economist along with Aliprantis at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, noted that income differences not only have a direct impact on the amount of money coming into a household, but a higher income can also lead to a better credit score and a better mortgage rate, which can lead to living in a better-connected neighborhood with stronger schools, and so on and so forth. (crainscleveland.com)
Without a holistic understanding of each neighborhood, the decisions made can further inhibit the economic growth of low- and moderate-income communities. (newamerica.org)

UNU-WIDER : Working Paper : What explains the gender gap in top incomes in developing countries? (unu.edu)
What explains the gender gap in top incomes in developing countries? (unu.edu)
Compared with other high-income countries, the US ranks poorly on social and economic conditions, health-promoting environments and infrastructure, social well-being and access to health care and health insurance," they say. (contemporarypediatrics.com)
Objective To support evidence-informed decision-making, we created an evidence gap map to characterise the evidence base on the effectiveness of interventions in improving routine childhood immunisation outcomes in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). (bmj.com)
We map a broad swath of the literature on routine childhood immunisation in low-income and middle-income countries. (bmj.com)
However, reliable laboratory testing continues to be limited in many low- and middle-income countries. (cdc.gov)
TB control is increasingly being achieved in countries with high-income economies, yet TB continues to plague persons living in countries with low-income and lower-middle-income economies. (cdc.gov)
One hundred twenty-nine years later, TB is increasingly under control in most countries with high-income economies ( 2 ) yet continues to afflict persons living in countries with low-income and lower-middle-income economies ( 3 , 4 ). (cdc.gov)
Rheumatic heart disease affects over 40 million people, mainly living in low- and low- to middle-income countries. (medscape.com)
The gap in labor market outcomes is larger in countries with more immigrant friendly attitudes. (lu.se)
In particular, the unemployment gap is bigger in countries where collective bargaining agreements cover a larger share of the labor market. (lu.se)
Together with our partners we also announced an agreement to purchase 120 million of these tests for 68 low and middle-income countries in all regions of the world. (bvsalud.org)

Turkey's prominent Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association (TUSİAD) has developed a project to close the income gap between the country's southern and southeast region, which have a per capita income of around $4,000 annually, and western regions, with a per capita income around $16,000, said vice chairman Sedat Şükrü Ünlütürk, who runs the project to maintain economic support for the peace process. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
The national per capita income is around $4,000 in the 14 provinces in the eastern and southeastern regions of the country, yet the figure increases to $16,000 in the western provinces. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
We obtained county-level food retail gap per capita, defined as the difference between county-level food demand and county-level food sales in 2008, from the North Carolina Department of Commerce, and BMI data from the 2007 North Carolina Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. (cdc.gov)
To examine county-level associations between BMI and percentage of rural residents, commute times, and food retail gap per capita, we used Pearson correlation coefficients. (cdc.gov)
To examine cross-sectional associations between individual-level BMI (n = 9,375) and county-level commute times and food retail gap per capita, we used multilevel regression models. (cdc.gov)

The country's nearly 3 million public servants and 6 million retired workers, who represent the bulk of pensioners, have suffered similar real income losses. (al-monitor.com)

Women physicians gravitating to specialties - particularly higher-paying specialties - have helped close the gender gap somewhat. (medscape.com)
Children from low income families in Florida have the best chance of achieving a higher income level if they grow up in Miami.Surprised?I was. (wlrn.org)
The higher denial rate for Black families, according to the report, was due to: higher debt-to-income ratios, poor credit histories, and incomplete applications. (atlantatribune.com)
Middle- and upper-income communities employ a higher use of traditional financial services, electronic payments via credit/debit cards, and online banking. (newamerica.org)
Results by income level show that HALE is higher in higher income level. (researchsquare.com)
We find that 60 percent of the wage gap is due to labor being paid a higher wage per efficiency unit in West Germany, and quantify three distinct barriers that prevent East Germans from migrating west to obtain a higher wage: migration costs, workers' preferences to live in their home region, and more frequent job opportunities received from home. (repec.org)

Physiatrists' average income rose from our last report ($300K), when COVID-19 took a greater toll on medical practices' finances overall. (medscape.com)
In another part of the speech, he pointed out that when he graduated high school, the average CEO earned 20 times to 30 times the income that a median worker. (peoplesworld.org)
Manufacturing states, which have lagged behind the national average in personal income growth during the 1980s, began to close the gap in the year that ended in June, the government said this week. (deseret.com)
Despite some ups and downs for certain specialties, average income for all physicians in Medscape's annual report has risen steadily since 2011. (medscape.com)
In this 6-year period, average income has risen from $206,000 in the 2011 report to $294,000 this year. (medscape.com)

China's Gini co-efficient, an index of the social gap, reached 0.73 as early as 2010 - not the highest but quite high measured against the rest of the world - he said, attributing it to widening gaps in property ownership and different income growth rates for different social groups. (chinadaily.com.cn)

In Ohio, there are signs that the racial income gap has not only persisted, but has grown over time. (crainscleveland.com)
an economic commentary that points to the racial income gap as the "primary driver behind the wealth gap. (crainscleveland.com)

As China's economy enters the "new normal", a key challenge is widening income gaps and the State needs to take measures to prevent the trend, says Li Shi, a senior scholar on income distribution at Beijing Normal University. (chinadaily.com.cn)

Creating the enabling conditions to support the achievement of a living income is paramount to the members of the Living Income Community of Practice, an alliance for improving smallholder incomes. (isealalliance.org)
A new analysis of student test-score data found school districts with administrators hired to head "diversity and inclusion" programs are not only not shrinking achievement gaps, but may actually be serving to expand them. (breitbart.com)

And he declared that strengthening collective bargaining is one way to close that gap. (peoplesworld.org)
To solve the problem, President Obama laid out a "roadmap" of principles to close the income and wealth gap and pledged to keep fighting for them for the rest of his term. (peoplesworld.org)
Solutions like black banking, while important for some reasons, are not enough to close the racial wealth gap either, the Duke researchers contend. (nextcity.org)
A large food retail gap may exacerbate rural food deserts (13), or areas where residents have limited access to affordable, healthy food (14), when smaller food venues in underserved areas close as business is lost to nearby discount supercenters (13,15). (cdc.gov)

To accelerate progress against the global effects of disease caused by TB and achieve its elimination, we must bridge 3 key gaps in implementation, knowledge, and ambition. (cdc.gov)
Fendall further suggested "all that remains is the problem of translating what is current common knowledge and routine medical and health practice to the other two thirds of the world: the 'implementation gap' must be closed. (cdc.gov)

Furthermore, the distortion of a couples?tradeo¤ between male and female labor supply is the same as in a Mirrleesian world without a gender wage gap. (tse-fr.eu)

Innovative companies are combining premium and living income pricing with trade mechanisms like longer term contracting and partnerships to build value over time with smallholder suppliers. (isealalliance.org)
Two farmer leaders described routes to successful income diversification, which included provision of technical services, the enhancement of farmer interest and commitment, the strengthening of the ability for cooperatives to pre-finance, and making use of living income benchmark research to begin a process of analysing the most promising routes to diversification and living income. (isealalliance.org)
Living income is part of the bigger sustainable livelihoods picture which requires measures to deal with concerns on multiple angles (social, environmental and economic) and multiple actors coming together. (isealalliance.org)

The income gap between black and white Americans, the study finds, is almost entirely driven by differences in earnings between black and white men. (npr.org)
The gap between rich and poor is somewhat different than most Americans perceive it to be. (mountaintimes.info)
With traditionally defined benefit pension plans disappearing Americans have to create their own income streams for retirement. (wealthtrack.com)
While agency data shows that the vast majority of Americans pay their taxes voluntarily and on time, hundreds of billions of dollars in unpaid taxes pile up each year - and tax gap estimates keep getting bigger. (wxpr.org)
The Justice Gap: Measuring the Unmet Civil Legal Needs of Low-income Americans explores the "justice gap," the difference between the civil legal needs of low-income Americans and the resources available to meet those needs. (palegalaid.net)
In the past year, 86% of the civil legal problems reported by low-income Americans received inadequate or no legal help. (palegalaid.net)

The median household income was $29,375. (wikipedia.org)

That's a pay gap just shy of $100,000, with specialists making 45.6% more than what PCPs make. (medscape.com)

For Hispanics, we see slightly lower incomes for children at the same level of parent income. (npr.org)
In August, CARB announced that income-based incentives will be the new norm statewide, with lower-income applicants getting priority. (mystateline.com)

The percentage of rural residents was positively correlated with commute times, food retail gaps, and county-level BMI. (cdc.gov)
To better understand associations between area-level factors and obesity, we conducted ecologic analyses of associations between the percentage of rural-dwelling residents, commute times, food retail gaps, and BMI for all 100 North Carolina counties. (cdc.gov)

The gender income gap was earlier explained by women having less education than men. (lu.se)

We are adding focus and resources to areas of compliance concern, including high-income and high-wealth individuals, partnerships and corporations," Werfel said in a statement. (wxpr.org)
While a significant part of the populace grapples with melting real incomes, banks and big corporations have been able to increase theirs. (al-monitor.com)

Our study contributes to the polarization discussion with respect to multidimensional theoretical measurement and empirical application in two ways: First, we propose extended multidimensional polarization indices based on a CES-type well-being function and present a new measure to multidimensional polarization, the mean minimum polarization gap 2DGAP. (iza.org)
Second, the empirical application - in addition to the traditional income measure - incorporates time as a fundamental resource for any activity. (iza.org)

Meanwhile, white men are far out-earning black men, even when they start out in families with similar income levels. (npr.org)
There's a direct line between redlining, which kept Black families out of certain neighborhoods, and the racial wealth gap, Griffin said, as where people live has financial implications. (crainscleveland.com)
Income diversification becomes key when a farmer's main cash crop is not generating sufficient income for their families. (isealalliance.org)
The share of national income going to middle class and poor families shrank in this period - which is why there is such broad support today for Occupy Wall Street's "We are the 99 percent" movement. (nationalmemo.com)

Salaried workers' income gap has been widening over the past couple of years amid the COVID-19 pandemic, data showed Wednesday. (koreatimes.co.kr)
Failure rates in English and math for some low-income students in Montgomery County, Maryland have jumped as much as sixfold after the state's largest public school system switched to remote learning during the pandemic. (breitbart.com)

The Economic Well-Being of Canadians: Is there a Growing Gap? (fraserinstitute.org)
For the United States as a whole, the annual rate of non-farm personal income growth for the year ended in June was 7.7 percent, up from 7.1 percent in the earlier part of the economic expansion. (deseret.com)
A new partnership between the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth and New America Foundation works to build a comprehensive data solution for understanding the economic life and purchasing power of low- and moderate-income communities. (newamerica.org)
Information on the economic life and spending power of low- and moderate-income communities is limited due to greater use of cash, the prevalence of alternative financial services providers, and the limited incentives to conduct a comprehensive analysis of market potential. (newamerica.org)
These insights may help integrate the above sources into a new model for better understanding the economic life of low- and moderate-income communities. (newamerica.org)
The researchers, from Duke University's Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity, contend that without transformative economic policy, changes in the racial wealth gap will only widen. (nextcity.org)

Self-employed physicians reported their earnings after taxes and deductible business expenses, but before income taxes. (medscape.com)

More than 13,000 physicians in 29+ specialties told us how their compensation fared, how they supplement their income, and how they feel about being a physician. (medscape.com)
These specialties will see their income recover, Singleton says. (medscape.com)

We are, after all, bombarded by claims of stagnating incomes, a lack of opportunity not faced by previous generations, and, of course, the old cliché that the rich are getting richer while the poor stay poor. (fraserinstitute.org)

This study aims to understand the gaps in the demand and supply of skills in the labour market and forecast the projected job requirements in various sectors for the next five years. (dailypioneer.com)

However, while women's capital income is more concentrated on rental income from real estate, men are more likely to earn capital income from dividends and financial returns, and to figure as majority shareholders. (unu.edu)
What explains the women's wealth gap? (woodstockinst.org)

Notably JSLPS has partnered with IPE Global Limited for conducting a statewide "SKILL GAP ANALYSIS" under DDU-GKY scheme in Jharkhand. (dailypioneer.com)

CEOs are making incomes than ever before, and the gap between what CEOs are making and the lowest paid workers in those companies are making is increasing. (bigthink.com)
The persistent gap in health-care coverage between low- and high-income workers in Washington State: BRFSS, 2003-2007. (cdc.gov)
Methods: We examined data from the WA Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System 2003-2007 and compared workers aged 18-64 years of low income (annual household income (cdc.gov)
Results: Of the 54,536 survey respondents who were working-age adults in WA, 13,922 (25.5%) were low-income workers. (cdc.gov)
The proportions of uninsured were 38.2% for low-income workers and 6.3% for high-income workers. (cdc.gov)
While employment-based health benefits remained a dominant source of health insurance coverage, they covered only 40.2% of low-income workers relative to 81.5% of high-income workers. (cdc.gov)
Conclusion: A persistent gap in health-care coverage exists between low- and high-income workers. (cdc.gov)

The gap between Connecticut's wealthy and poor is the second largest in the nation behind only New York, according to a report by Connecticut Voices for Children and the Connecticut Association for Human Services. (ctnewsjunkie.com)

Coverage of intermediate outcomes (such as those related to health system capacity) in this evidence gap map may be incomplete if studies on these outcomes do not target routine vaccination specifically. (bmj.com)
Income is always a key benchmark for physicians, whether the criterion is earning enough to live a comfortable life or feeling that earnings compensate for the aggravation, rules and regulations, electronic health record (EHR) frustrations, and other challenges of the profession. (medscape.com)

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is also shifting to make the state's EV purchase incentives more helpful to low-income drivers . (mystateline.com)

Spatial Wage Gaps in Frictional Labor Markets ," Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute Working Papers 29, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. (repec.org)

There are gaps in the study of non-material incentives and outreach to vulnerable populations. (bmj.com)
The presented study was developed to support these efforts by reviewing international best practices and standards on criminal and legal coverage for persons engaging in human rights protection activities, as well as examining relevant Armenian legislation and conducting a gap analysis. (lu.se)

While physiatrists' income rose overall, not all individuals saw an increase. (medscape.com)

When the researchers controlled for parental income, they found black women earn slightly more than white women. (npr.org)
Moreover, the gap in HALE by region was found to increase. (researchsquare.com)

Also, as specialists add caseload, perform more procedures, and utilize new technology, their income rises a lot faster than the pay boosts for primary care physicians," he says. (medscape.com)

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