„1,007,000 Americans working full-time earn the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. All of that pay, to all of those people, for all of 2014 adds up to $14 billion dollars. And that is less than half of what employees on Wall Street earned in bonuses alone.“ (Source: http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2015/04/18/wall-street-bonuses-twice-the-income-of-all-minimum-wage-workers/)
Category Archives: Ungleichheit
… Germany – Chartbook of Economic Inequality
Max Roser gives an „Overview of Trends of Economic Inequality in Germany„. This is his summarizing interpretation of the data, see also his wonderful chart.
… Mehr lesen...„Has the dispersion of earnings been increasing in recent decades? – Yes, top decile has risen from 150 per cent of median in 1950s to 190 per cent at end of 2000s.
Has overall inequality increased in recent years? – Yes, the Gini coefficient in 2010 was 3 percentage points higher than in 1998.
Have there been periods when overall inequality fell for a sustained period? – Overall inequality (and poverty) fell over the 1960s and 1970s.
Has poverty been falling or rising in recent decades? – Poverty rate increased from 10 per cent to 15 per cent between 1998 and 2010.
Has there been a U-pattern for top income shares over time? – No, top gross income shares were relatively
Robert Reich
„According to the Institute for Policy Studies, the $26.7 billion of bonuses Wall Street banks paid out last year would be enough to more than double the pay of every one of America’s 1,085,000 full-time minimum wage workers.“
via Robert Reich.… Mehr lesen...