income gap
Rich-poor earnings divide
The income gap is the difference in earnings between groups—typically the wealthy and the poor, but also between demographic categories like men and women or different racial groups.
The income gap between CEOs and average workers has widened dramatically since the 1970s.
The term frames economic inequality as a measurable disparity rather than a natural condition.
- inequalityUnequal distribution of resources
- disparityMeasurable difference between things
- wealth distributionHow prosperity is shared
- povertySevere lack of resources
- richHaving much of something
poor · top earners · wages · living wage · class divide · paycheck · paycheck to paycheck · haves · have-nots · working class · middle class · minimum wage · wage stagnation · billionaire · struggling · affluence · economic divide · salary
- social classupper class, middle class, lower class, working class, social class
- inequalitydisparity, economic disparity, wealth concentration, class divide, economic divide
- Modern AmericaCOVID-19, pandemic, Great Recession, 9/11, Iraq War
- labor economicsjob market, labor supply, labor demand, employment rates, unemployment rates
- development statisticsdemographic data, birth rate, poverty rates, death rate, literacy rate
- economic ethicsfair wages, fair pricing, economic justice, economic fairness, wealth redistribution
income gapincome equality
Even wealth distribution
economic equality · equal pay · pay equity · egalitarianism · classless society
income gapclassless society
System without social strata
egalitarianism · social equality · classlessness · economic justice · social cohesion
income gapeconomic mobility
Movement between income levels
social mobility · upward mobility · meritocracy · equal opportunity · open society
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