Trust in America: How do Americans view economic inequality?
Amid rising inequality, many Americans feel that the U.S. economic system is unfair and generally favors powerful special interests.
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Amid rising inequality, many Americans feel that the U.S. economic system is unfair and generally favors powerful special interests.
Earnings overall have held steady through the pandemic in part because lower-wage workers experienced steeper job losses.
Over the past 50 years, the highest-earning 20% of U.S. households have steadily brought in a larger share of the country’s total income.
About six-in-ten U.S. adults say there’s too much economic inequality in the country these days, and among that group, most say addressing it requires significant changes to the country’s economic system, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.
Seven-in-ten U.S. adults say the U.S. economic system unfairly favors powerful interests. Less than a third say the system is generally fair.
The higher education pipeline suggests a long path is ahead for increasing diversity, especially in fields like computing and engineering.
Black adults are particularly likely to say slavery continues to have an impact: More than eight-in-ten say this is the case.
Millennials are the largest adult generation in the United States, and the American family continues to change.
The gap in the standard of living between Asians near the top and the bottom of the income ladder nearly doubled from 1970 to
2016. Amid rising inequality overall, Asians displaced blacks as the most economically divided major U.S. racial or ethnic group.
Income inequality nearly doubled among Asians in the U.S. from 1970 to 2016. Sizable income gaps persist across racial and ethnic groups, a new study finds.
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