Online Resources |
General
AAUW: The Simple Truth About the Gender Pay Gap (2014)
The Cause of Rising Income Inequality (The National Bureau of Economic Research)
Distribution of Income
For Richer, For Poorer (The Economist)
Huffington Post: This is Why Poor People's Bad Decisions Make Perfect Sense
Income Inequality and Assortive Mating (PEW)
Income Inequality News (Bloomberg)
Inequality.org
Books on Inequality
Pew Research Center: Income Inequality
Social Inequality (Russell Sage Foundation)
Urban Institute: Less Than Equal: Racial Disparities in Wealth Accumulation
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Pennsylvania
Economic Policy Institute: Lopside Income Growth in Pennsylvania, 1979 to 2007
Increasingly Unequal in Pennsylvania: Income Inequality, 1917 to 2011
Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center: Income Inequality
Pennsylvania Median Household Income, 2006-2010
WomenVotePA: Gender Income Inequality in Pennslyvania: County-by-County |
United States
America's Middle Class: Poorer Than You Think (CNN Money)
Invisible Children
The Unequal State of America
A Guide to Statistics on Historical Trends of Income Inequality
Measuring Trends in Leisure
Poverty in America - 20/20, Camden, NJ
US Income Inequality (The Huffington Post)
Who Rules America: Wealth, Income, and Power
When Income Grows, Who Gains?
(The State of Working America) |
International
Distribution of Family Income - Country Comparison (CIA, The World Factbook)
How a Lack of Toilets Puts India's Women at Risk of Assault (NPR)
Income Inequality and Wealth Distribution by Country
Inequality Watch
OECD Work on Income Distribution and Poverty
Population Health Forum
The Standardized World Income Inequality Database
The UC Atlas of Global Inequality
Wealth and Poverty (UIUC Center for Global Studies) |
At the Library
- Who Stole the American Dream? / Hedrick Smith (E839.5 .S59 2012)
- Income Inequality / edited by Sidney Weintraub (H1 .A4 vol.409)
- The Haves and the Have-Nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality / by Brian Milanovic (HC79 .I5 M547 2011)
- The Changing Face of Inequality: Urbanization, Industrial Development, and Immigrants in Detroit, 1880-1920 / Olivier Zunz (HC108 .D6 Z86 1982)
- The Great Divergence: America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do About It / Timothy Noah; with illustrations by Catherine Mulbrandon (HC110 .I5 N63 2012)
- The Price of Inequality / Joseph E. Stiglitz (HC110 .I5 S867 2012)
- American Dream Dying: The Changing Lot of the Least Advantaged / Peter D. McClelland & Peter H. Tobin (HC110 .P6 M337 2010)
- The Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy as if the Future Matters / Diane Coyle (HD87 .C69 2012)
- Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America / Barbara Ehrenreich (HD4918 .E375 2001)
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E-Books
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Videos / Films
American Dream Myth - Stiglitz on Income Inequality
Inequality for All (Part 1 of 3), (2 of 3), (3 of 3), Film Web Site
Income Inequality (NOW / PBS)
Need to Know: Economic Inequality and Mobility (PBS)
Income Inequality and the Minimum Wage
MetroFocus: Special on Income Inequality
Viva la Causa
Wealth Inequality in America |
