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Tag: Income Inequality
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Via them.us
San Francisco Program Will Provide Guaranteed Income for Trans People
San Francisco Mayor London Breed recently announced the Guaranteed Income for Transgender People (GIFT) program, a no-strings-attached monthly stipend that will be delivered for 18 months to low-income people who are transgender, …
Via nytimes.com
NYC to Require Salary Ranges Be Included in Job Postings
Starting in November, a new NYC law will go into effect that requires companies with at least four employees to include the lowest and highest salaries for any job it posts. These …
Via smithsonianmag.com
How Income Inequality Led to the Creation of Monopoly
While Monopoly may be the world’s best-known board game, the story behind its creation has long been shrouded in mystery—until now. A man named Charles Darrow is usually the one credited as …
Via newsweek.com
62 People Have the Same Wealth as Half the World
According to a new report from Oxfam, 62 people now hold the same wealth as half of the entire world’s population. That group of people, which could fit into a double decker …
Global Rich List Redesign
The decade-strong income visualization tool gets a real-time update