Showing posts with label Sociology - Inequality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sociology - Inequality. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Champagne Glass Distribution of Wealth

...found from the Graphic Sociology Blog at Contexts.org

Another good visual of global distribution of income

Champagne Glass Distribution from Conley (2008) You May Ask Yourself

Conley, D. (2008) You may ask yourself: An introduction to thinking like a sociologist. New York: W.W. Norton and Company. p.392.

Monday, March 21, 2005

Social Class and the US Economy: The uneven burden of money's higher cost

By Ron Scherer

Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

NEW YORK – The cost of being a borrower is rising.

As the Federal Reserve raises interest rates - as it is expected to do again Tuesday - everyone from students to car buyers to anyone carrying a credit-card balance will start to notice that lenders are charging more.

To read the entirety of this article, click here