Sentences with phrase «of wealth inequality»

The 2016 election year highlighted the growing problem of wealth inequality and finding ways to help the people who are falling behind.

What did they discover in terms of wealth inequality?

The scale of wealth inequality in the UK suggests that taxing wealth may have a role in reducing inequalities in economic resources.

While we would expect households with older adults in them to have more wealth than younger households due to saving and asset accumulation, this only explains a small proportion of wealth inequalities in Britain.

«Such staggering levels of wealth inequality threaten our democracy, compound racial and class divisions, undermine social cohesion, and destabilize our economy,» the report says.

«We want and need the right amount of wealth inequality to fuel the creative ambition that leads people to seek a better financial future.»

But the rising cost of luxury underscores the severity of wealth inequality that's striking communities across America.

The Resolution foundation report finds that pension wealth is a big driver of wealth inequality, even more than property.

In particular, we are considering whether there are equal or similar opportunities to accumulate wealth in the UK as well as whether the outcomes of wealth inequality cause socio - economic problems.

Jim Davies, a professor at the University of Western Ontario who works on the Credit Suisse report, said there can be broader implications of wealth inequality.

Shrinking Room is a monumental, wood sculpture that merges architectural form with text to address issues of wealth inequality.

• According to a 2012 report complied by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, the top 0.1 % of families in the US own almost the same share of wealth as the bottom 90 % combined — signaling levels of wealth inequality not witnessed since the Great Depression.

Taxing wealth is an underexplored option in the UK, given the scale of wealth inequality.

The Robert Reich doc «Inequality for All» lays out the problem of wealth inequality in stark, yet humane ways — a double feature with «Wolf of Wall Street» would be stunningly sobering.

We published Wealth inequality: key facts in December to stimulate debate and then identified a number of key questions about the nature of any «problem» of wealth inequality.