Open Directory - Science: Social Sciences: Economics: Consumption and Wealth: Inequality
See also: - Census Bureau 1996 paper pointing out the sharp decline in the percentage of income of the bottom 80% of American since the late 1960's, taking the whole thirty years as a block. - Outlines a proposals to reduce the disparity in wealth between poor and wealthy nations and individuals, through taxation and redistribution. - A speech by P. J. O'Rourke, nationally syndicated columnist and award-winning author, on income disparity. - Catholic Social Justice takes a stand against income disparity, which it says is growing fast in the US. Includes statistics. - Portal to research on poverty, inequality and development at Cornell University. - Graphically describes and criticizes income distribution in the United States. - The UTIP is a research group concerned with measuring and explaining movements of inequality in wages and earnings and patterns of industrial changes around the world. Techniques are applied to data from the United States, the OECD, and UNIDO, with interesting results for both developed and developing countries. - U.S. national, independent, nonpartisan organization concerned about the growing income, wage and wealth inequality in the United States. Specific issues include wage inequalities and "tax cuts for the rich". - An interview with Helena Norberg-Hodge, founder of the International Society for Ecology and Culture, regarding globalism, new world economics, and their effects on the consumerist society. (May 27, 2000)
