Inequality Archives

CEPR investigates economic and social policies that affect, as well as methods of measuring, levels of hardship, poverty and inequality in the U.S.

CEPR investiga las políticas económicas y sociales que afectan, así como los métodos para medir, los niveles de adversidad, pobreza y desigualdad en los Estados Unidos.

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InequalityJobsPovertyUnited StatesWagesWorkers Customer Tips Are Providing the Lion’s Share of Wages to Tipped Workers

The so-called “tip credit” subsidizes employers & short-changes workers.

Sylvia Allegretto / March 27, 2024

Data Byte

InequalityJobsUnionsUnited StatesWagesWorkers Employment Challenges Facing Security Guards

In 2022, more than 850,000 people in the United States worked as security guards. This post provides a quick overview of the challenges facing this particular part of the workforce — challenges that face almost all low- and middle-wage workers — and explores the particular ways security guards experience these issues.

Christopher Hendrix Brandon Novick John Schmitt / March 13, 2024

Op-Ed/Commentary

DisabilityEconomic GrowthInequalityJobsUnionsUnited StatesWorkers Preview of the 2024 Disability and Economic Justice Chartbook

Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its annual estimates of the labor force characteristics of the disabled population in the United States.

Hayley Brown Tori Coan Julie Yixia Cai / February 22, 2024

Op-Ed/Commentary

Climate ChangeFEMAInequalityPovertyUnited StatesWorkers Disasters and Vanishing Land Are Leaving the Most Vulnerable Behind in Southeastern Louisiana

Through the combination of subsidence — land literally sinking from the previously noted resource extraction — and rising sea waters, the Gulf of Mexico is slowly swallowing lower Plaquemines.

Matt Sedlar / February 15, 2024