Tag: income inequality
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PublishedSeptember 13, 2018
Maine household income grew 4% last year, but still fell short of national level
New census figures show that the state’s median income did grow faster than the national rate in 2017, to more than $56,000.
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PublishedSeptember 3, 2018
Our View: Not much to celebrate for American workers
Despite signs of a strong economy, stagnant wages are holding back working families.
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PublishedSeptember 3, 2018
Maine Voices: Maine workers suffered a catalog of indignities in earlier times
Those who celebrated the state’s first Labor Day in 1891 surely appreciated the well-deserved recognition.
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PublishedAugust 24, 2018
Letter to the editor: ‘Full employment’ falls way short of being a measure of ‘the good life’
To make America great, elevate the arts, promote technological developments that benefit humankind, and crusade against intolerance, illiteracy, poverty, hunger, illness and the inequitable distribution of the nation’s wealth.
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PublishedAugust 21, 2018
By 2020, more than half of the world’s population will be ‘middle class’
That’s according to new research by a Brookings Institution scholar.
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PublishedAugust 16, 2018
CEO pay jumps to $19 million annually
A new report shows the gap between executive and employee pay at its highest point in about a decade.
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PublishedAugust 8, 2018
Our View: Federal housing policies make a bad situation worse
HUD secretary Ben Carson’s response to a lack of housing is to triple rents for the very poorest Americans.
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PublishedJuly 21, 2018
Commentary: Of course Kylie Jenner didn’t build that fortune
Media coverage of the most successful ought to reflect that.
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PublishedJuly 19, 2018
Commentary: Before founder’s exit, Papa John’s had shameful record of mistreating workers
If people were offended by that as much as his racial slur, maybe John Schnatter would have quit sooner.
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PublishedJuly 19, 2018
Our View: A new way of counting can’t eliminate poverty in United States
If the War on Poverty is ‘largely over’ as the Trump administration says, it’s because we gave up, not because we won.
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