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The Reference Shelf: U.S. National Debate Topic 2023-2024: Wealth & Income Inequality

Table of Contents

Preface




1 The Distribution of Wealth




The Many Dimensions of Wealth Inequality




Wealth Inequality and the Racial Wealth Gap




The U.S. Inequality Debate




Inequality in the Time of COVID-19




“What’s the Difference between Income and Wealth?”




Wealth Inequality on the Rise During Pandemic




2 The Income Spectrum




Income Inequality in American Culture




Increase in Income Inequality Driven by Real Declines in Income at the Bottom




Why Inequality Is Growing in the US and Around the World




Falling Wages and Discretionary Pay-Setting Practices




For Many Workers, Raises Today Don’t Make Up for Years of Wage Stagnation




A Second Gilded Age: How Concentrated Corporate Power Undermines Shared Prosperity




3 Prejudice in Economics




The Racial and Gender Wealth Gap




Racial Wealth Gap May Be a Key to Other Inequities




How the Racial Wealth Gap Has Evolved—and Why It Persists




Why the Racial Wealth Gap Is So Hard to Close




Gender Pay Gap in U.S. Hasn’t Changed Much in Two Decades




There Has Been Little Progress in Closing the Gender Wage Gap




4 Policies and Causes




Aspects of Economic Inequality




How the Federal Reserve Is Increasing Wealth Inequality




Sharing the Gains of Automation




Study: Automation Drives Income Inequality




Artificial Intelligence Has Caused a 50% to 70% Decrease in Wages—Creating Income Inequality and Threatening Millions of Jobs




5 Extreme Solutions to Age-Old Problems




Combating Economic Inequality




The Fed’s Doomsday Prophet Has a Dire Warning About Where We’re Headed




Elizabeth Warren’s Wealth Tax Would Reduce Inequality—The Problem Is It’s Probably Unconstitutional




A Cure for Income Inequality?




The Black-White Gap in Wealth Mobility and What to Do About It




Fact Sheet: Biden-Harris Administration Announces New Actions to Build Black Wealth and Narrow the Racial Wealth Gap




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