5. Can rights combat economic inequality / Uneven distribution of wealth in the United States -- Has wealth inequality in America changed over time? Here are key statistics / Mila Versteeg. Racial wealth gap may be a key to other inequities / Liz Mineo -- 6 facts about economic inequality in the U.S. / Katherine Schaeffer -- Wealth gap : how the education world fails to fully measure students' economic disadvantage / Matt Barnum -- Modern society is as unequal as 14th century Europe / Scotty Hendricks -- 2. Minimum wage -- What is the value of an hour? -- Most Americans support a $15 federal minimum wage / Amina Dunn -- Six reasons to oppose a $15 federal minimum wage / Jarrett Skorup -- Five myths that pervade the minimum wage debate / Jensen Ahokovi -- Statement by President Joe Biden on $15 minimum wage for federal workers and contractors going into effect / Joe Biden -- Missing piece of the minimum wage debate / Colleen Doody -- California's $15 minimum wage debate begins this year : debate on the next increase has already begun / Ryan Golden -- 3. Taxation dilemma -- Corporate and wealth taxes and income inequality -- Why it's so hard to tax the rich / Monica Prasad -- Corporate taxes are wealth taxes / David Leonhardt -- What's in the new global tax agreement? / Daniel Bunn and Sean Bray -- Democrats struggle with plan to tax dynastic wealth / Brian Faler -- Truth about income inequality / David R. Henderson -- 4. Causes and effects -- Social and economic factors influencing income inequality -- Automation is not to blame for the growth of income inequality / Robert D. Atkinson -- Artificial intelligence has caused a 50% to 70% decrease in wages, creating income inequality and threatening millions of jobs / Jack Kelly -- How to solve AI's inequality problem / David Rotman -- Can labor unions help close the Black-white wage gap? / Natalie Spievack -- Don't expect unions to make a comeback / Nick Gillespie and Regan Taylor -- House gives green light to staffer unionization / Katherine Tully-McManus and Eleanor Mueller -- Weakened labor movement leads to rising economic inequality / Heidi Shierholz -- Unions help reduce disparities and strengthen our democracy / Economic Policy Institute -- 5. Solutions and strategies -- Can income inequality be solved? -- Views on reducing economic inequality / Juliana Menasce Horowitz, Ruth Igielnik, and Rakesh Kochhar -- Tackling the inequality pandemic : is there a cure? / Zia Qureshi -- Obamacare is key to combating income inequality, study finds / Adriana Belmonte -- Why socialism won't work / Allison Schrager -- How a default union membership could help reduce income inequality / Mark Harcourt, Gregor Gall, Margaret Wilson, and Nisha Novell -- Can rights combat economic inequality / Mila Versteeg.
Summary:
"Studies indicate that income inequality is increasing, with wealthy Americans controlling a greater share of the wealth while incomes for most Americans have changed little compared to the increasing cost of living. This issue of The Reference Shelf takes a close look at the factors impacting income inequality in the United States. Articles featured in this issue examine topics such as the minimum wage, wealth inequality, tax loopholes, corporate taxation, and the ways in which healthcare, childcare, and food expenses prevent Americans from advancing in the economic spectrum."-- Provided by publisher.
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