Stories tagged: "income inequality"


Women Workers: Here Are Tools to Get the Pay You Deserve

Looking for ways to end women's pay inequity? Here are some resources that may help.

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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.

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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.

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.
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.

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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. 

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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.