Features related to income inequality

FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2008 file photo, a mountaintop removal mining site at Kayford Mountain, W.Va. with Coal River Mountain, left, in the background. Environmental activists gained more momentum this year than in the past decade against the destructive, uniquely Appalachian form of strip mining known as mountaintop removal. But they have yet to mobilize the millions of supporters they want. (AP Photo/Jeff Gentner, File)
Rise Up or Die
May 20, 2013 | Perspectives
Chris Hedges writes that we must either defy the corporate state or accept our extinction as a species. He believes rebellion is the only way to remain fully human.
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Poverty and Inequality in Some of the World’s Richest Countries
May 15, 2013 | Smart Charts

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, or OEDC, has released its latest data. The United States has one of the highest rates of inequality, topped only by three countries in a select group of developed market economies. Continue reading

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America’s Corporate Inequality Problem
May 7, 2013 | Smart Charts

Bloomberg News ranks the companies with the highest CEO-to-worker pay disparities for 2012. One CEO made approximately 1,795 times what his average worker does. Continue reading

Kevin Smith, 36, left, and Chimera Tucker, 22, coo at their baby Jazzmine Smith, 7 months, inside of the DC Village shelter in Washington on Wednesday Jan. 17, 2007. The couple are homeless and have been staying in DC Village for the past six months. They have recently been approved for transitional housing through the Coalition for the Homeless. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
America is Ignoring Homeless Families
April 21, 2013 | News & Notes
The number of homeless families has increased by more than 13 percent since 2007.
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Measuring Income Inequality Along the NYC Subway
April 16, 2013 | Smart Charts
The New Yorker maps average incomes around every subway stop in New York City. It's quite a ride.
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Inequality in Silicon Valley, in Five Charts
April 12, 2013 | Smart Charts
The high-tech mecca is a stark example of a nationwide trend.
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Sequestration Means Less Affordable Housing, More Homelessness
April 7, 2013 | News & Notes
Because of sequestration, a bleak housing and homelessness situation is about to get a lot worse.
Images of abject suffering and deprivation on the Gulf Coast were laid bare by Hurricane Katrina – not just suffering caused by the hurricane’s destructive path, but vivid portraits exposing the numbing poverty of tens of thousands of Mississippi and Louisiana families prior to the storm. (Credit: Brenda Ann Kenneally)
Photo Slideshow: Poverty in Today’s America
April 5, 2013
See images of poverty from around the nation documented by photojournalists from AmericanPoverty.org.
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Two Americas, Then and Now
April 5, 2013 | Smart Charts
A year before his death, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. described "two Americas" -- one prosperous, one desperately poor. Not much has changed since 1967.
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Homeless in High Tech’s Shadow
April 5, 2013

In California’s Silicon Valley, Facebook, Google and Apple have minted hundreds of new tech millionaires. But not far away, the homeless are building tent cities along a creek in the city of San Jose. Continue reading

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