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Has Wealth Inequality in America Changed over Time? Here Are Key Statistics

By Ana Hernández Kent, Senior Researcher, and Lowell R. Ricketts, Data Scientist, Institute for Economic Equity If you Google “wealth inequality in America,” you may find our blog post What Wealth Inequality in America Looks Like: Key Facts & Figures. In it, we showed the state of wealth and income…

Income

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Has Wealth Inequality in America Changed over Time? Here Are Key Statistics
Has Wealth Inequality in America Changed over Time? Here Are Key Statistics
Income

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St. Louis Fed

·May 28, 2021

Are We Really in This Together? The Divided Nature of the COVID-19 Crisis

By Alexander Monge-Naranjo, Research Officer and Economist Economists often distinguish between idiosyncratic shocks — those that affect a small number of individuals — and aggregate shocks — those that affect a large market or segment of the population. The former can be individually catastrophic, but do not impact the economy…

Unemployment

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Are We Really in This Together? The Divided Nature of the COVID-19 Crisis
Are We Really in This Together? The Divided Nature of the COVID-19 Crisis
Unemployment

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St. Louis Fed

·May 24, 2021

Central Bank Digital Currencies: Back to the Future

By Amalia Estenssoro KEY TAKEAWAYS Monetary authorities are researching central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), which could make payment and settlement systems more efficient. Once issued, CBDCs will be a third type of central bank liability, along with cash and reserves. China is an example of a country where the central bank has…

Digital Currency

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Central Bank Digital Currencies: Back to the Future
Central Bank Digital Currencies: Back to the Future
Digital Currency

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St. Louis Fed

·May 4, 2021

Federal Funding in Response to COVID-19

By Crystal Flynn At the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, the federal government moved quickly to enact four major pieces of legislation to help offset potential economic, health and societal impacts of the global pandemic. As of Oct. 1, 2020, roughly $2.59 …

Covid-19

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Federal Funding in Response to COVID-19
Federal Funding in Response to COVID-19
Covid-19

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St. Louis Fed

·Mar 26, 2021

How the Shipping Container Shaped Global Trade over the Past 50 Years

By Alexander Monge-Naranjo, Qiuhan Sun KEY TAKEAWAYS Innovations have played significant roles in expanding global trade throughout history. A simple trade innovation — the shipping container — may have triggered an escalation in international trade over the past 50 years. Technological innovations may give the U.S. a significant advantage in global trade…

Trade

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How the Shipping Container Shaped Global Trade over the Past 50 Years
How the Shipping Container Shaped Global Trade over the Past 50 Years
Trade

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St. Louis Fed

·Feb 26, 2021

Podcast: Inequality and Stock Market Participation

Part of our Timely Topics: Economic Equity miniseries. — “High-income people, they save more, and then the return of their wealth is also higher because of high correlation with the biggest stock market participation rate,” says YiLi Chien, economist and research officer at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. In this podcast, he talks about the that…

Podcast

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Podcast: Inequality and Stock Market Participation
Podcast: Inequality and Stock Market Participation
Podcast

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St. Louis Fed

·Feb 4, 2021

Putting Racial Equity at the Center of Conversations

By Ryan Heinz, External Engagement Staff Events and protests this past summer turned up the volume on national conversations about fair treatment of Black Americans, including in the workplace and the economy. But Sydney Diavua and her colleagues already had been making sure those conversations were heard — in the…

Racial Equity

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Putting Racial Equity at the Center of Conversations
Putting Racial Equity at the Center of Conversations
Racial Equity

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St. Louis Fed

·Jan 28, 2021

Podcast: “The Quiet Conversations Have Gotten Louder” around Workplace Culture and Race

Part of our Timely Topics: Economic Equity miniseries. — “The quiet conversations have gotten louder,” Douglas Scarboro, regional executive of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Memphis Branch, says of willingness to address the topic of race. Pradeep Rajendran, senior manager, hosts a casual discussion with four St. Louis Fed executives: Scarboro; Francois Henriquez, general counsel; Nikki…

Ecnomic Equity

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Podcast: “The Quiet Conversations Have Gotten Louder” around Workplace Culture and Race
Podcast: “The Quiet Conversations Have Gotten Louder” around Workplace Culture and Race
Ecnomic Equity

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St. Louis Fed

·Jan 20, 2021

Podcast: A Way to Influence Public Policy

In this Women in Economics interview, Marie Mora and Lea-Rachel Kosnik discuss why having diverse perspectives at the policymaking table is essential. Marie Mora, provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Missouri-St. …

Public Policy

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Podcast: A Way to Influence Public Policy
Podcast: A Way to Influence Public Policy
Public Policy

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Published in

St. Louis Fed

·Jan 15, 2021

The Economy’s “She-Cession” Persists, Especially for Women of Color

By Meredith Covington and Ana H. Kent During most of the coronavirus pandemic and COVID-19 recession, women have faced higher unemployment rates than men, as the pandemic affected sectors with high shares of female workers, particularly in service professions.* Moreover, the closures of schools and day care centers and the…

Women

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The Economy’s “She-Cession” Persists, Especially for Women of Color
The Economy’s “She-Cession” Persists, Especially for Women of Color
Women

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