income inequality Archives - Centralmaine.com

Maine Voices: Maine workers suffered a catalog of indignities in earlier times

by Charles Scontras September 3, 2018September 2, 2018

Those who celebrated the state’s first Labor Day in 1891 surely appreciated the well-deserved recognition.

by By Jeff Stein and Jena McGregor August 16, 2018August 16, 2018

A new report shows the gap between executive and employee pay at its highest point in about a decade.

If the War on Poverty is ‘largely over’ as the Trump administration says, it’s because we gave up, not because we won.

by Paul Stekler April 8, 2018April 6, 2018

His ‘Mountaintop’ speech is still relevant 50 years later in its insistence upon economic justice in the U.S.

by Vincent Del Giudice, Wei Lu April 26, 2017April 26, 2017

About 38 percent of U.S. jobs could be at high risk of automation by the early 2030s, according to a study by PricewaterhouseCoopers.

by PAN PYLAS January 16, 2017February 10, 2017

If changes aren’t made, public anger against this kind of inequality will lead to more seismic political changes, Oxfam says.

The governor’s final effort to reduce the income tax follows previous rounds of tax cutting, including at the low end of the income spectrum.