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A variety of factors — such as a greater likelihood of working at jobs that offer paltry retirement and other benefits — keep single women from achieving their financial goals, says Mariko Chang, a consultant who recently completed a report on the wealth gap for women for the Insight Center for Community Economic Development in Oakland, Calif..

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The reports constantly chide Ontario for «cluster underperformance,» a factor apparently responsible for $ 5,300 of the $ 7,500 per capita wealth gap between Ontario and its North American peers.

Tang said the wealth gap was actually widening at a slower pace compared with a rise of 0.004 between 2006 and 2011, thanks to the government's increased efforts to help the impoverished, including an increase of over 40 per cent in welfare spending on public housing and medical benefits for the poor.

Announcing the report findings, commissioner for census and statistics Leslie Tang Wai - kong pointed out that the Gini coefficient - an index from 0 to 1 that measures the wealth gap - for households rose by 0.002 from 0.537 in 2011 to a record high of 0.539 last year.

«Gaps are certainly of special concern to those considering early retirement, since they are eligible for Social Security benefits at 62, but must wait until age 65 to receive Medicare,» said Kimberley Foss, a certified financial planner and founder of Empyrion Wealth Management.

One of the key reasons for the widening wealth gap is because the rich invest their savings, while the not rich tend to spend.

The housing recovery since 2010 - 2012 has been a massive boon for homeowners, which has resulted in a further widening of the wealth gap.

By Laura Lorek Publisher of Silicon Hills News Business as a force for good, capitalism as the roots of inequity in our society stemming from slavery, the wealth gap and intentionally helping underserved communities.

CDR --- your projection for your end result is probably correct.The wealth of switzerland will be the value of its international portfolio.If it is so easy why doesn't everyone do this.It is similar to the perpetual money machine of the U.S. Fed — they build a massive balance sheet of U.S. treasury debt and then clip the coupons and pass the «earnings» back to the Treasury filling the gap of an ever expanding deficit.Following the Swiss model the Treasury should just issue more debt and sell it to the FED and collect the annual interest income — simple

It requires a wealth of information to compensate for what we have not learned all our lives — there is a real gap in what women grow up knowing about childbirth.

«Health and wealth are directly linked and, unless we tackle the income gap, we could well see life expectancy actually starting to fall for the first time in the poorest areas,» said lead researcher Professor Danny Dorling.

Conference calls for Liberal Democrats in government to continue to work to ensure that the most vulnerable in society are not disproportionately affected by the government's austerity measures and to ensure that the wealth and inequality gap does not widen.

James Graham moved Amendment 3 at the Liberal Democrat Special Conference which reads: Insert after line 23: «Conference calls for Liberal Democrats to work constructively in government to ensure that the the net income and wealth inequality gap is reduced...

«Conference calls for Liberal Democrats to work constructively in government to ensure that the the net income and wealth inequality gap is reduced significantly over the course of this parliament.»

«The bill is also counterproductive, especially at a time Nigerians are witnessing a sprawling gap in accountability for grand corruption, and high - ranking public officials accused of corruption are getting away with reduced punishment, and allowed to keep their ill - gotten wealth.»

Imposing a highly progressive tax income and estate tax structure to pay for the increased expenditures and to lessen the income and wealth gaps in the U. S.

Wouldn't such a tax system be better for decreasing the wealth gap?

But today, he nodded along as Ms. Warren described the move to trickle - down economics in the 1980s that she blames for today's wealth gap.

In addition to the wealth of information shared in this interview, I highly recommend getting the book Gut and Psychology Syndrome, which provides all the necessary details for Dr. McBride's GAPS protocol.

• Two recently published studies (by Addo, Houle, and Simon and Grinstein - Weiss et al.) use national survey data to show that black students hold substantially more debt by age 25 compared to their white counterparts, and that disparities are evident even after controlling for family income and wealth, indicating that differences in postsecondary and labor market experiences contribute to the debt gap.

With a rising immigrant population, a well - documented achievement gap between white students and students of color, and broadening gaps in wealth of Americans, Deb Delisle, the assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education for the U.S. Department of Education, said that the odds that are against these children were are really related to a gap in «educational opportunity.»

A new study finds that wealth - and race - based gaps in school readiness for children entering kindergarten narrowed modestly between 1998 and 2010.

The hope though is that these gaps will have less to do with race and wealth than they do today, but we don't know for sure.

CSDC has proven that through collaboration and leveraging, its innovative programs positively impact low - income and low - wealth communities by increasing access to high quality public education and reducing the «achievement gap» for minority and at - risk students.

Speaking on Monday at the Wealth Management Association, Education Secretary Nicky Morgan, who is also Minister for Women and Equalities, linked the low number of girls studying technical subjects and the gender pay gap.

WHEREAS, at a time when the nation's K - 12 students are now «majority — minority» and racialized gaps in student achievement, income, wealth are on the rise, the continued opportunity gap in schools has created a climate where communities are restless for alternatives.

While several studies have shown that family wealth and neighborhood quality account for nearly half the IQ gap between blacks and whites at age five, recent work by developmental psychologists Jeanne Brooks - Gunn and Lisa Markman suggests that more than half of that gap is actually attributable to how mothers relate to their children.

However, this preferred policy strategy for resolving the student debt problem will only exacerbate the wealth gap between students who have even small amounts of student debt and those who do not have any debt, by increasing the time that it takes to pay off student loans.

A new report from the Public School Forum of North Carolina shows a large and persistent resource gap for public schools between the highest and lowest wealth counties in the state.

It's worth noting there is a more than $ 100,000 gap between the average and median household incomes ($ 193,879 vs $ 82,722, respectively), suggesting a small number of families account for a large part of the wealth.

That is according to market research firm Dalbar and its 20 years of Quantitative Analysis of Investor Behavior studies, though I prefer the less scientifically accurate «behavior gap» illustration from Carl Richards, a certified financial planner and the director of investor education for the BAM Alliance, a community of more than 130 independent wealth management firms throughout the U.S.

The wealth gap in America has fostered different approaches for investors.

And the wealth gap is also large for households headed by young adults without a bachelor's degree: Those with no student debt have accumulated roughly nine times as much wealth as debtor households ($ 10,900 vs. $ 1,200).

Just knowing that you're doing something to beat the millennial wealth gap can make you feel better about the situation — and will likely set you up for a brighter fiscal future than if you did nothing at all.

to beat the millennial wealth gap can make you feel better about the situation — and will likely set you up for a brighter fiscal future than if you did nothing at all.

These works, like «Providence Spirits (Gold)» (2017), are the most lovely objects in the show and are meant to stand out as carry horses for the metaphor of wealth and the gap between the lives these heavily aestheticized and finely crafted paintings represent and the lives (alluded to in other rooms) that are deemed worth significantly less.

You know, the truly astonishing thing is that we hear that phrase (that we can't afford to do anything about our ecological overshoot because there are so many hungry peoplle) all the time, yet those are the same people who are strictly against what they call «wealth redistribution» and who are all for «globalization» and «free markets», the resukt of which over the last few decades has been that the gap between rich and poor has only gotten bigger and bigger.

Parenting interventions that are delivered during this developmental period are necessary in order to capture the groups of youth and families (i) currently experiencing problems, but who did not receive an intervention during early childhood; (ii) those who received an intervention in early childhood, but who continue to experience problems and (iii) those who are not currently experiencing problems, but are at risk for developing problems later in adulthood.7 In Steinberg's 2001 presidential address to the Society for Research on Adolescence, a concluding remark was made for the need to develop a systematic, large - scale, multifaceted and ongoing public health campaign for parenting programmes for parents of adolescents.8 Despite the wealth of knowledge that has been generated over the past decade on the importance of parents in adolescent development, a substantial research gap still exists in the parenting literature in regards to interventions that support parents of adolescents.

Even controlling for wealth and age disparities, the gap for black and Hispanic homeowners widened by 1.4 percent and 0.4 percent respectively.

Other strategies to address the erosion of homeownership for African Americans include addressing the income and wealth gap and reducing the burden of high rents that undermine financial stability and hinder savings.