It found that even a 100% marginal tax rate on Indian earnings would only plug 20% of its aggregate poverty gap.
So how many dollars would have filled the poverty gap in 2001?
We wrestle with all sorts of policy questions about the achievement gap, intergenerational poverty and the like.
Women in London are more likely to live in poverty, experience a wider pay gap, and are less likely to work once they have children than women living elsewhere.
Women make up about two-thirds of all the workers earning minimum wage, increasing the gap as they continue to pull in poverty wages.
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In the face of escalating poverty, growing environmental and social pressures, and a widening income gap, we see the need for greater effectiveness in what we do.
That history helps explain the wealth and income gap between blacks and whites, and the concentrated pockets of poverty that persist in so many of today's urban and rural communities.
In the period since the War on Poverty and Great Society, such significant problems as the black-white educational achievement gap have persisted, seemingly immune to the cures of Head Start and federal aid for poor school districts.
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As ball clubs in New York, Los Angeles, Boston and Chicago were widening the revenue gap due to the size and strength of their local markets, cries of poverty began to emanate from the corridors of County Stadium.
In fact, according to studies undertaken by the World Bank, economic growth, far from widening inequality, has reduced the gap between rich and poor within and between provinces, as well as lifting millions above the poverty line.
The gap was so wide that both countries could portray themselves as victims: the Philippines because of its relative poverty, Singapore its wealth.
There is, though, a bigger problem that exists regardless of the gap between rich and poor, but is made starker as a result of it: pure, sheer poverty.
Most single mothers operate under extreme social and economic impediments -- triple the poverty rate of the rest of the population, the highest rate of low-wage employment, the worst wage gap, the lowest net worth, the highest risk of bankruptcy -- that add up to a massive inequality in American society.
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