Income Gap Up Over Two Decades, Data Show
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WASHINGTON - Over two decades, the income gap has steadily increased between the richest Americans, who own homes and stocks and got big tax breaks, and those at the middle and bottom of the pay scale, whose paychecks buy less.    The growing disparity is even more pronounced in this recovering economy...
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Over the last 40 years, home prices have grown at a rate far exceeding wages.
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According to two researchers, the increase in income inequality resulted from large income changes in areas heavily involved in the information technology boom.
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The U.S. economy is showing signs of  faster growth, according to reports released on Monday on the  Midwestern and New York City economies and U.S. personal  income.
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Britain's economy grew at a two-year high during the second quarter compared with the first three months of 2006, according to unrevised official data.
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US personal incomes rose 1.5 percent in the second quarter of 2004, the fastest pace of growth in more than three years as income gains sped up in 33 states, the Commerce Department said on Tuesday.
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Blog: Net income for the second quarter was $925 million, or $2.93 a share, up from $721 million, or $2.33 a share, a year earlier.
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NEW YORK -- Barely two years ago, Cristina Rodriguez and her three children were moored on the wrong side of the income gap. A high school dropout, she was making a little more than $200 a week, stapling price tags to shirts and boxing them at a Modell's warehouse. "I didn't use my mouth, didn't use...
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Two new research papers offer evidence that there is a growing happiness gap between men and women.
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Real median household income remained unchanged between 2002 and 2003 at $43,318, according to a report released today by the US Census Bureau.
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Black women with advanced breast cancer are faring no better now than they were two decades ago despite improved survival by white women -- and the gap appears to be widening, U.S. researchers said on Sunday.
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Slight improvement tempered by forecast of a sharp rise in debt over the next 10 years. Links to other web sites will open a new browser.
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Life has improved for American women over the last 40 years, but big inequities persist, and they vary substantially by state, according to an assessment released Tuesday.
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When the rich get richer, it isn't just the poor who get squeezed, according to a new book by income-inequality expert Robert H. Frank.
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Personal incomes rose in January at the fastest clip in a year, bolstered by bonus payments to high-income executives and pay raises for federal workers. The extra income helped support a better-than-expected rise in consumer spending.
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Business & money: Unemployment in the United States rose to its highest level in more than two years last month
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NEW YORK  - Influenza-related  hospitalizations have increased dramatically in the US in the  last two decades, in part because of the aging population,  according to a report in the Journal of the American Medical  Association.