The US has had an enormous amount of income disparity for quite some time.
Perhaps this is a social problem because with increasing income disparity comes social unrest.
Singapore's "Gini coefficient" the best-known economic measure of income disparity is the second highest in the developed world.
Income disparity: We used Census data on median earnings for full-time workers in the past year.
Rising income disparity has threatened to price out many working and middle class Chinese from the coastal cities.
This is why income disparity has constantly grown since the US exited the gold standard and inflation became a serious threat.
It's a clear sign Beijing is worried about income disparity, and the setting of hard targets could put fire to reforms.
In these times of weak economic growth and growing income disparity, the Republicans delude themselves by claiming to ignore class warfare.
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In 2011, it was the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement that expressed the anger of millions of Americans at income disparity.
They see the world they are inheriting facing urgent challenges and risks related to climate change, income disparity, health issues, and more.
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That income disparity will only grow in the coming years, so we may quickly be nearing the reality of a super conference model.
The issues of executive pay and growing income disparity were rising on the political agenda, as did the issue of raising the minimum wage.
As to income disparity between 1979 and 2007, the Federal Reserve figures shows the highest income cohort doubled their annual compensation when adjusted for inflation.
Moving to Beijing has opened his eyes to the kind of wealth that some enjoy, but he sees income disparity as a fact of life.
Addressing income disparity is a thornier proposition than simply building the new roads, airports and other infrastructure projects that have helped propel the Chinese economy.
They, like the rest of America, would be better off today if the government policy errors that led to the increasing income disparity had not occurred.
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All too many libertarians could care less about the statism that causes the problems of income disparity, but go ballistic over the statism intended to alleviate it.
Income disparity is becoming a bigger problem as the earnings of the richest Russians being 16 times higher than those of the poorest citizens, President-elect Vladimir Putin said recently.
In August, the State Department diplomatic security report on Guangzhou, China, noted it was one of the world's largest urban areas with comparably low crime, but there is income disparity and social friction.
While most stories about the financial crisis have focused on the mortgage market and unaccountable bankers, The Flaw goes deeper, looking at the history of income disparity and how it led to the crisis.
To determine the best city for couples, we collected data for 40 of the largest metropolitan statistical areas for five different categories: marriages per 1, 000 people, divorces per 1, 000 people, starter-home affordability, income disparity and availability of couple's or family counseling.
This disparity in income and human welfare is, in the long run unsustainable for our democracy and even for the rich.
Should we be worried about the huge disparity in income that has cropped up in only five years between Michael Oher and himself?
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They were not quite hunter-gatherers besides hunting and foraging, they also practised slash-and-burn agriculture but they did live in self-sufficient villages, and there was little disparity of income between villagers.
Signing a legal document of this type could be helpful if the couple owns substantial assets or if there is a wide disparity in income or wealth between the two members of the couple.
While this is understandable considering that there is a wide disparity of income per capita between the two nations, as more consumers in China, or for that matter any emerging nation, see an increase in buying power as the country develops, the demand for smartphones will increase exponentially.
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Another fact he ignores is the great disparity that has developed in income between the top few percent and the rest of us.
In a column I posted in this space on Oct. 10, 2011, I suggested that the President and Congressional leaders should meet with the OWS representatives to listen and possibly address their grievances, most particularly the oppressive high unemployment, income inequality, and the unfair tax disparity.
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Consider the disparity in the relative chunks of income that go toward food and drink.
Furthermore, almost all low-income countries with available data highlight a wide disparity in antibiotic use for suspected childhood pneumonia between the poorest and richest sections of the population.
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