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What factors influence income inequality?

  • Written by Dale O. Cloninger, Professor Emeritus, Economics & Finance, University of Houston-Clear Lake

Whether it’s by coincidence or causation, the financial collapse of 2008 and 2009 has resulted in growing angst over income inequality.

Millions of workers disappeared from the workforce and have yet to return. This has magnified the gap between households at one end of the income spectrum and the other.

While this growing concern over the...

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