Tag: inequality
The earnings gap between women and men remains stubbornly large. So even a little progress counts as good news. One group of women made some gains during the pandemic. Let’s use the term middle class as shorthand for someone earning between 40 percent and 60 percent of all workers’ wages. The Economic Policy Institute (EPI)…
Numerous articles have appeared here in recent months about the ways that racial disparities are infused into our financial and economic systems. Two barriers to Latinx and Black workers’ ability to save, for example, are less health insurance coverage and more burdensome student loan payments than White workers have. Or consider the different long-term housing…
