Sentences with phrase «high income inequality»

Researchers have found no inherent link between high income inequality and low social mobility.

When the researchers looked at emissions from the purchases of clothing, services and manufactured products, they found higher regional differences in carbon footprints, especially in countries with higher income inequalities.

«Income splitting is a policy choice that would purposely exacerbate already high income inequality in Canada,» he said.

At the same time, there are also high Alzheimer's rates, comparatively high chronic illness levels, as well as high income inequality and inadequate public transit here.

The model also implies a feedback loop: high income inequality depresses the interest rates, facilitating the existence of housing bubbles, which in turn have regressive welfare effects.

«When you get to a point as a society when you have this type of income inequality — highest income inequality in history... it's just wrong,» Cuomo said during a Monday rally at the headquarters of SEIU 1199, which will lead a labor - backed coalition to support the Democratic governor's push to raise the state's minimum wage to $ 15 by 2021.

Highest Income Inequality — In January, B.C. Stats reviewed the data and found that B.C. has the largest income gap in Canada, with the bottom 20 per cent of British Columbians earning just 7.7 per cent of what the top 20 percent make, and well down from the 22 per cent seen in the 1990s.

Under the Liberals, B.C. has earned the unfortunate distinction of having the worst overall poverty rate in Canada and the highest income inequality of all provinces and territories.

We can end New York's shameful status as the state with the highest income inequality.

Segregation by class is also high and growing in New York State, which has the highest income inequality of any state in the nation.

The study found that states with the highest income inequalities had higher disparities in birth outcomes across the UV spectrum.