Catholic Social Justice takes a stand against income disparity, which it says is growing fast in the US. Includes statistics.

Portal to research on poverty, inequality and development at Cornell University. kccu cornell

Addresses the causes of the income gap, and some proposed solutions.

The University of Texas Inequality Project is a small research group concerned with measuring and explaining movements of inequality in wages and earnings and patterns of industrial change around the world. We believe we can establish reasonably reliable relationships between these measures and the broader concepts of inequality. Our work has emphasized the use of Theil's T statistic to compute inequality indexes from industrial data. pike fly patterns

A speech by P. J. O'Rourke, nationally syndicated columnist and award-winning author, on income disparity.

Census Bureau 1996 paper pointing out the Sharp decline in the percentage of income of the bottom 80% of American since the late 1960's, taking the whole thirty years as a block.

Organization dedicated to analysis of Economic and technological regional convergence in Europe. Provides conference descriptions, case studies, and research.

A George Washington University analysis of how economic reforms (away from socialism) have caused a widening income gap in China, and yet raised the standards of living of the Chinese people. curved raised bed

The US Income distribution does not look like a "Bell Curve". It is an "L-Curve": a gradual ramp for 99% of the population forming "horizontal branch" and steep spike at top reaching into stratosphere. disparity so great difficult to represent on single graph. Instead we have produced series pictures that can be "zoomed" over five orders magnitude.

Helena Norberg-Hodge interviews and articles. Global trends benefiting an elite few and systematically destroying cultural diversity, and the environment. What can you do to help? Job interviews