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Household incomes in Europe: Where did they rise since the pandemic?

EU real household incomes per capita have risen by about 7% since the pre-pandemic period, but changes between 2019 and 2024 vary widely across countries.

Euronews Business looks at how real household incomes per person changed after COVID-19 and over the past decade.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260206-household-incomes-in-europe-where-did-they-rise-since-the-pandemic?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#EU #Income #IncomeDistribution #HouseholdIncomes #Europe #Economy

Australia's 48 billionaires wealthier than bottom 40pc combined, Oxfam finds
By Yiying Li and Jason Dasey

Oxfam Australia is calling on the federal government to tax the super rich to help tackle growing inequality, as billionaires grow their wealth by more than half a million a day on average.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-19/income-inequality-oxfam-report-calls-to-tax-billionaires/106236612

#IncomeDistribution #Poverty #BusinessEconomicsandFinance #Charities #YiyingLi #JasonDasey

Elite sportswomen have shared their stories, and these are the hard truths
By Amanda Shalala, Elizabeth Wright, Johanna McDiarmid, Kate O'Halloran, and Lindsay Dunbar

Low pay, discrimination, disordered eating, sexism and online abuse are just a few of the prevalent issues ABC's Elite Athletes in Women's Sport Survey has revealed, despite recent progress in women's sport.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-12/abc-elite-athletes-womens-sport-survey-results/106100946

#Sport #WomensHealth #GenderDiscrimination #OnlineAbuse #WagesandBenefits #Discrimination #GenderEquality #MentalWellbeing #IncomeDistribution #SocialMedia #PeopleWithDisability #Racism #EatingDisorders #DomesticViolence #AmandaShalala #ElizabethWright #JohannaMcDiarmid #KateOHalloran # #LindsayDunbar

Results summary of the ABC Women's Sport Survey

Here is a summary of the results from ABC Sport's inaugural Elite Athletes in Australian Women's Sport Survey, in partnership with Deakin University.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-12/abc-elite-athletes-womens-sport-survey-full-summary/105989848

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How do Europe's highest earners compare to the wealthy worldwide?

The income gap between the lowest and highest earners remains stark in Europe, despite policy measures to tackle such inequality.

According to the latest Eurobarometer survey, 81% of Europeans believe that income gaps are too wide and 78% believe that governments should take more action to reduce them.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20251222-how-do-europes-highest-earners-compare-to-the-wealthy-worldwide?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Income #Salaries #Rich #IncomeDistribution #Wealth #WealthDistribution #Inequality #IncomeGapEurope

Larry Ellison briefly overtakes Elon Musk as world's richest person
By Hanan Dervisevic

The switch in the ranking comes after a blockbuster earnings report from Oracle, powered by multi-billion-dollar orders from customers as the AI race heats up.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-11/larry-ellison-overtakes-elon-musk-world-richest-person/105761394

#IncomeDistribution #BusinessEconomicsandFinance #Businesses #HananDervisevic

The rich are 'squeezing out' ordinary people and this millionaire aims to stop it
By David Taylor and Michael Janda

Gary Stevenson achieved his childhood dream of becoming rich by his mid-20s. The 39-year-old now spends most of his time campaigning against the wealthy.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-05/gary-stevenson-economist-and-former-trader/105734926

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South Korea’s income gap widened for a second straight quarter as labor income for the bottom 20% of households plunged 7.3%, while business income for the top 20% rose, pushing the quintile share ratio to 5.45 in Q2 2025.
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The 'golden era' of reform in the 1980s and 90s had a dark side
By Gareth Hutchens

Treasurer Jim Chalmers won't be making big reforms to the tax system immediately. He knows major policy changes can have unintended consequences.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-24/the-golden-era-of-reform-in-the-1980s-and-90s-had-a-dark-side/105680806

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'Imputed rent' and what it could mean for a fairer Australia
By Gareth Hutchens

As industry leaders and the federal government prepare for next week's economic summit, two economists have started a national conversation by arguing that, to make Australia's tax system fairer, we should consider taxing home owner-occupancy. Here's what that means.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-15/imputed-rent-tax-home-owners-welfare-productivity-round-table/105647030

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India climbs the ladder of equality📈
Proud moment as India is now ranked 4th globally among the most equal countries in income distribution.
A significant milestone towards inclusive growth and economic balance! 💼💰

#IndiaOnTheRise #EconomicEquality #IncomeDistribution #ProudIndian #FinancialInclusion #IndiaGrowthStory #SakshamAgrawal

Inequality measures for the distribution of wealth (net-worth) in the USA from 1990 to 2024. See also: drive.proton.me/urls/VW05MET... #inequality #wealthinequality #wealthdistribution #incomeinequality #incomedistribution #Gini #Giniindex #Platoinequality

dfa-networth-levels_fromIneqComps.xlsx

See https://drive.proton.me/urls/VW05METQ2G#fWlnSQkKhSvY

Wealth distribution: https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/dfa/distribute/chart/#range:1989.3,2025.1;quarter:142;series:Net%20worth;demographic:networth;population:all;units:levels

Six relations between a Theil Redundancy and the Hoover Index. Could zAccept be used as an indicator for the acceptance of inequality? Spreadsheet: web.archive.org/web/http://s... #Gini #Atkinson #Theil #GiniInequality #PlatoInequality #Plato #inequality #incomes #incomedistribution

Six relations between the symmetrized Theil Redundancy and the Hoover Index ("Robin Hood Index"). Could zAccept (the orange curve is its negative value) be used as an indicator for the acceptance of inequality?
Python code:
rSym = 0.5 * sum(math.log(a / b) * ((a / a_total) - (b / b_total)) for a, b in pairs)
zHoover = 0.5 * sum( abs ((a / a_total) - (b / b_total)) for a, b in pairs)

from https://web.archive.org/web/http://snrk.de/inequality_experiment.ods (2008)

Goetz Kluge, 2025

Inequality of income distribution in the USA for all states, 2022. Spreadsheets and tools: drive.proton.me/urls/QM5NNTY... #Gini #Atkinson #Theil #GiniInequality #PlatoInequality #Democrats #Republicans #States #USstates #inequality #incomes #incomedistribution

Screenshot from the spreadsheet AtkinsonGiniPlato_USA in https://drive.proton.me/urls/QM5NNTY0KG#ilcSNoCwIJgw

#P|#G|#H|#ok|STATES|symmetrized Theil|sym. Atkinson|Plato|Gini
50|50|49|50|Nevada|0,602|45,21 %|52,09 %|53,22 %
49|49|50|49|Florida|0,578|43,90 %|51,16 %|53,21 %
48|48|48|48|Connecticut|0,568|43,35 %|50,77 %|52,81 %
47|47|47|47|Massachusetts|0,530|41,15 %|49,20 %|51,51 %
46|46|46|46|New York|0,518|40,43 %|48,69 %|51,06 %
45|45|45|45|California|0,490|38,76 %|47,48 %|49,99 %
44|44|44|44|New Jersey|0,470|37,48 %|46,56 %|49,08 %
43|43|43|43|Texas|0,469|37,42 %|46,51 %|48,93 %
42|42|42|42|Illinois|0,456|36,63 %|45,94 %|48,34 %
41|41|41|41|Louisiana|0,433|35,15 %|44,85 %|48,02 %
40|40|40|40|Arizona|0,430|34,97 %|44,72 %|47,30 %
39|39|39|39|Michigan|0,421|34,36 %|44,26 %|46,78 %
38|38|38|37|Georgia|0,404|33,24 %|43,43 %|46,27 %
... ... ...
12|10|10|16|South Dakota|0,336|28,50 %|39,81 %|42,08 %
11|11|9|14|Wisconsin|0,335|28,47 %|39,79 %|42,10 %
10|14|14|8|Maine|0,331|28,17 %|39,55 %|42,47 %
9|9|11|9|Indiana|0,329|28,06 %|39,46 %|42,06 %
8|5|6|10|Utah|0,329|28,01 %|39,42 %|41,41 %
7|7|8|6|Virginia|0,322|27,56 %|39,07 %|41,63 %
6|8|7|7|Maryland|0,322|27,55 %|39,06 %|41,65 %
5|6|5|5|Idaho|0,319|27,30 %|38,86 %|41,49 %
4|4|4|4|Nebraska|0,298|25,74 %|37,62 %|40,29 %
3|3|3|3|Hawaii|0,291|25,28 %|37,24 %|39,86 %
2|2|2|2|Iowa|0,289|25,08 %|37,08 %|39,80 %
1|1|1|1|Alaska|0,267|23,41 %|35,70 %|38,35 %

Bottom 20% income group faces labor and business income decline, while overall income distribution shows slight improvement amid economic uncertainties and targeted support measures.
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An Exercise in Middle Woodland Geometry VI - Landscape

https://wjbeaver.wixsite.com/mysite/post/newark-earthworks-landscape-time-and-memory

A #carbontax on emission-intensive agricultural goods – #meat, #dairy – can reduce agricultural emissions in Germany by over 20% & generate #revenues over 8 billion EUR/year. Used for a compensation scheme, a carbon #tax can have a progressive #incomedistribution effect & increase social acceptance. Carbon #taxes on agricultural goods can help achieve the sectoral #emissions reductions targeted by the government: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102794 #climatechange #meattax #taxation #Germany