Stories tagged: "income inequality"

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Education Biden Cancels Student Loan Debt: Here’s What You Need to Know.

Biden’s executive order will cancel $10,000 in debt for anyone who went to college and earns less than $125,000—$20,000 for Pell Grant recipients.

Keya Vakil Keya Vakil August 24, 2022 11:32 am MST
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Economy A Poor Measure of Need: Researchers Urge Update to Decades-Old Federal Poverty Line

A family of four isn't considered to be living in poverty unless they make less than $26,500, due to an equation that hasn't been updated since the 1960s.

Chase Hunter Chase Hunter August 17, 2021 7:06 am MST
Climate A recent study found that people making $109,000 and higher must adjust their carbon-emitting habits by a factor of 30 in order to stave of the most disastrous effects of climate change.
Climate The World’s Wealthiest 1% Are Killing the Planet

Unless people making the equivalent of $109,000 and higher drastically change their habits, the world will be unable to prevent the most dire consequences of climate change.

Keya Vakil Keya Vakil December 10, 2020 8:32 am MST
Arizona Joe Biden posing for photo with supporters at a rally
Arizona How Biden’s Tax Plan Would Help Middle-Class Arizonans

The average annual income of the top 1% of Arizona earners is over $880,000, while it’s only $42,000 for the rest of the state’s population. 

Meghan McCarthy Meghan McCarthy Jessica Swarner Jessica Swarner October 1, 2020 7:18 am MST
Arizona Photo by Bart Everson.
Arizona Arizonans Making Less Than $25,000 per Year Hardest Hit by Pandemic

Arizona's working class is feeling the financial strains of the coronavirus pandemic much more deeply than those making six figures, according to recent polling.

Jessica Swarner Jessica Swarner May 29, 2020 7:18 am MST

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