Showing posts with label Income distribution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Income distribution. Show all posts

Sunday, February 26, 2023

Income inequality in the USA

 SCary data at the bottom of the report in this post from tutor2u https://www.tutor2u.net/economics/blog/inequality-incomes-of-richest-1-in-the-usa-surge?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20tutor2u%20Economics%20blog&utm_content=Daily%20tutor2u%20Economics%20blog+CID_3d5119880f014c45037e5d1021e311dd&utm_source=CampMonitor&utm_term=Inequality%20-%20Incomes%20of%20richest%201%20in%20the%20USA%20surge

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Unit 1: The role of government in an economy

A brief clip of Joe Stiglitz explaining how income and wealth distribution in the USA has become more and more unequal

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20836074#

Friday, April 02, 2010

Unit 2: Distribution of income in the uk

Latest figures show a narrowing of the income gap in the UKbetween different regions says the BBC

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8597384.stm

The Guardian sees the data differntly

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/mar/31/north-south-divide-widens-official

and it can be seen brilliantly in this Guardian graphic

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/mar/31/economy-economics#zoomed-picture

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Unit 2: Inequality in incomes

From tutor2u comes this revision aid; it's a little too detailed for AS but the section near the end on government policies is really good

http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/files/Revision_Income_Inequality.pdf