Talk:Income inequality in the United States
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Nonconstructive? no source?
editI put the link source in there, so no clue why it was deleted.
CBO reported that for the 1979-2007 period, after-tax income (adjusted for inflation) of households in the top 1 percent of earners grew by 275%, compared to 65% for the next 19%, just under 40% for the next 60% and 18% for the bottom fifth.The share of after-tax income received by the top 1% more than doubled from about 8% in 1979 to over 17% in 2007. The share received by the other 19 percent of households in the highest quintile edged up from 35% to 36%.[1][2] The major cause was an increase in investment income. Capital gains accounted for 80% of the increase in market income for the households in the top 20% (2000–2007). Over the 1991–2000 period capital gains accounted for 45% of market income for the top 20%.
References
- ↑ "The Distribution of Household Income and Federal Taxes 2007". Congressional Budget Office, US ；Government. October 2011.
- ↑ Pear, Robert (2011-10-25). "Top Earners Doubled Share of Nation's Income, C.B.O. Says". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-10-10.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Hippypink (talk • contribs) 8 November 2021
Unclear wording under “Causes § Globalization”
editAt the end of the second bullet point paragraph, the following is poorly phrased:
“However, surveys of American Economic Association (AEA) members in 2000, 2011, and 2020 showed that consistent majorities of professional economists in the United States disagreed with the statement: ‘The increasing inequality in the distribution of income in the U.S. is due primarily to the benefits and pressures of a global economy.’”
In particular, the use of the colon before the quotation makes it unclear what position the sampled majority of economists hold. Do they believe that globalization is a contributing factor, or don’t they? 2600:8801:C914:FE00:8487:C428:AC7C:E06A (talk) 19:25, 12 May 2025 (UTC)
- Of course globalization is a contributing factor. The number of people still denying this in 2025 is absurd. American companies (mostly run by conservatives) have been moving their operations overseas since the 1960s while bringing in cheap labor to bust domestic unions. Viriditas (talk) 02:24, 12 January 2026 (UTC)
World Inequality Database. Many graphs and maps are in the public domain. US too
edit- World Inequality Database (WID). Many graphs and maps. Use Template:PD-map and Template:PD-chart. Regardless of whatever copyright claims are made by WID.
- https://wid.world/country/usa - Pick variables from menu.
Take screenshot or download via share arrow. Screenshot makes for a larger image. Upload to the Wikimedia Commons. See also:
Footnotes are in the wrong place
editUsually the Footnotes are BEFORE the External Links. Instead they are embedded WITHIN the External Links within the section titled Syncretic Christianity.
They're hard to read in this location. DreaSteu (talk) 01:16, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
- I didn't get the location correct. (I'm a newbie.)
- Everything after the section titled "Opinions of notable individuals" is all messed up.
- Footnotes should be in the section titled "References", before the section titled "Further Reading".
- Instead the footnotes are embedded in a section that USUALLY is at the very end of the article; the area that has all sorts of links to other Wikipedia articles related to the subject (I don't know what that section is called).
- And instead, this section is above the "See also" section, not at the end.
- Like I said, all messed up.
- I hope someone who knows more than I do, can clean this up! DreaSteu (talk) 01:43, 12 March 2026 (UTC)