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Household incomes vary widely across the U.S., creating a new kind of inequality
Yahoo Finance via AOL· 2 years agoPost-pandemic America has seen inflation grow rapidly, along with household income inequality....
Here's how much it costs to live in America's 10 most expensive cities
Business Insider via Yahoo Finance· 4 months agoAlexander Spatari/Getty Images San Francisco, San Jose, and Boston are three expensive cities for...
Teachers’ salaries have increased just $29 since 1996: report
The Hill via Yahoo News· 2 years agoStory at a glance The Economic Policy Institute published a new report on the history of teachers’...
Nearly 10 million Americans will get raises from minimum wage hikes in 2024: Study
The Hill via Yahoo News· 5 months agoA new year will bring more pay for millions of Americans, according to a new study from the Economic...
The executive-worker pay gap keeps getting bigger as CEOs rake in an average $27.8 million a year
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoMoney might seem tight, but CEOs are doing just fine. Top executives earned 399 times that of the...
Paltry U.S. minimum wage 'really striking' amid inflation
Yahoo Finance via AOL· 2 years agoIt's been 13 years since Congress raised the federal minimum wage, the longest period without an...
Nearly two dozen US states have raised their minimum wage in 2023
Quartz via Yahoo Finance· 1 year agoDays into the new year, millions more Americans are eligible for higher wages. As of Jan. 1, 2023,...
Report: Government needs better policies to help narrow economic equity gap
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 9 months agoThe racial wealth and equity gaps show no signs of subsiding in America, according to a new Economic...
Recent college grads are doing shockingly well. Can it last?
CNN Business via Yahoo Finance· 4 weeks agoA version of this story first appeared in CNN Business’ Before the Bell newsletter. Not a...
The federal minimum wage is worth less than it was over 60 years ago, thanks to inflation
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoDecades-high inflation in the U.S. has made the federal minimum wage worth less than at any point in...