- States Confront Wide Budget Gaps Even After Years of Recovery http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/08/us/states-confront-wide-budget-gaps-even-after-years-of-recovery.html 4 comments politics
- Chart of the Day: State Budget Gaps 2010 http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2010/01/chart-of-the-day-state-budget-gaps-2010.html 9 comments business
- Mississippi Still Fattest State, But Alabama Closing Gap... http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529684,00.html?test=faces 3 comments reddit.com
- Fiscal Situation of 50 States: Combined Budget Gaps Estimated at $350 Billon for 2010 and 2011. http://www.mybudget360.com/fiscal-situation-of-50-states-combined-budget-gaps-estimated-at-350-billon-for-2010-and-2011/ 5 comments economy
- This billionaire warns that America's massive wealth gap could lead to conflict [United States of America] https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/22/business/ray-dalio-inequality-conflict/index.html 46 comments economy
- States brace for massive budget gaps in coronavirus recession https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/489738-states-brace-for-massive-budget-gaps-in-coronavirus-recession 4 comments politics
- Poorest EU state faces quarter century wait to close the wealth gap https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-10/poorest-eu-state-faces-quarter-century-wait-to-close-wealth-gap 36 comments europe
- Poll: Clinton opens big gap in battleground state of Virginia http://www.cbsnews.com/news/poll-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-battleground-virginia-arizona-nevada/ 405 comments politics
- China’s trade gap with United States was 43 per cent bigger in September than when Donald Trump took office https://amp.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3105354/us-election-chinas-trade-gap-united-states-was-43-cent-bigger 13 comments politics
- The gap between India’s richer and poorer states is widening https://www.economist.com/news/business-and-finance/21727867-economists-are-baffled-arguing-poorer-states-should-be-catching-up 10 comments india
- The gap between India’s richer and poorer states is widening https://www.economist.com/news/business-and-finance/21727867-economists-are-baffled-arguing-poorer-states-should-be-catching-up 11 comments worldnews
- The corporate pay gaps we see routinely in today’s United States would have been unimaginable just a generation ago https://ips-dc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/report-executive-excess-2021-PDF.pdf 3 comments economics
- Poorest EU State Faces Quarter-Century Wait to Close Wealth Gap https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-10/poorest-eu-state-faces-quarter-century-wait-to-close-wealth-gap 6 comments europe
- Harris immediately closes the gap with Trump in new polls, outperforms Biden in crucial swing states https://www.salon.com/2024/07/25/harris-immediately-closes-the-gap-with-in-new-polls-outperforms-biden-in-crucial-swing-states/ 68 comments politics
- [Fox 5 Las Vegas] The state of Nevada could mandate Clark County to fill the $200 Million A's stadium funding gap in bonds. https://twitter.com/JaclynFOX5Vegas/status/1659574025415426048?s=20 187 comments baseball
- The pay gap between men and women tends to shrink after workers learn what their colleagues earn. The study of 100,000 US academics finds evidence that pay transparency was associated with more pay equality in academic workplaces in eight US states. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01288-9 8 comments science
- The pay gap between men and women tends to shrink after workers learn what their colleagues earn. The study of 100,000 US academics finds evidence that pay transparency was associated with more pay equality in academic workplaces in eight US states. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01288-9 578 comments science
- As U.S. income gap persists, more states move to increase minimum wage http://www.theatlanticpost.com/economy/u-s-income-gap-persists-states-move-increase-minimum-wage-5630.html 5 comments economy
- The income inequality gap in the United States now exceeds that of Egypt, which you’ll recall, just had a revolution. http://blogs.fayobserver.com/myronpitts/june-2011/american-greed--u-s--income-gap-worse-than-egypt 917 comments politics
- Elizabeth Warren closes the gap on Joe Biden in yet another national poll. At the same time, Warren pulls ahead of the former vice president in the early voting state of New Hampshire https://www.salon.com/2019/09/25/elizabeth-warren-closes-the-gap-on-joe-biden-in-yet-another-national-poll/ 48 comments politics
- 56% of parents report "a significant gap" between their company's stated support for paternity leave the attitudes they encountered when they requested time off https://blogs.sap.com/2019/07/24/parental-leave-why-gera-mats-aims-to-change-biases-against-men-as-caregivers/ 20 comments economy
- Something is Rotten in the State of Minnesota: Behind the shooting death of Philando Castile lies the worst racial gap in the country http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/07/minnesota-race-inequality-philando-castile-214053 25 comments politics
- The EU falls behind in private R&D investment, not public. Europe spends 0.74% of her GDP on public sector R&D, compared to the U.S.' 0.69%. The real gap is in private sector spending, where Europe spends 1.3% of GDP compared to the United States' 2.4%! https://www.siliconcontinent.com/p/the-problem-isnt-public-r-and-d 24 comments futurology
- Mastriano mocks Shapiro as ‘little Josh.’ Shapiro’s revenge: a massive bank account. State Sen. Doug Mastriano has always trailed state Attorney General Josh Shapiro in fund-raising in the governor's race. Reports filed Tuesday show Mastriano has failed to narrow that gap. https://www.inquirer.com/news/josh-shapiro-doug-mastriano-campaign-finance-reports-20220927.html 13 comments politics
- Democrats try end run around GOP-controlled states to close Medicaid gap in Texas and Southeast | The latest iteration of President Joe Biden’s social-spending package would close the health insurance gap for at least 2.2 million people, nearly all in Texas and the Southeast. https://www.dallasnews.com/business/health-care/2021/11/04/democrats-try-end-run-around-gop-controlled-states-to-close-medicaid-gap-in-texas-and-southeast/ 7 comments politics
- "In southwest Connecticut, the gap between rich and poor is wider than anywhere else in the country. Invisible walls created by local zoning boards and the state government block affordable housing and, by extension, the people who need it." https://www.propublica.org/article/how-some-of-americas-richest-towns-fight-affordable-housing 10 comments politics
- A plastics factory in India where a chemical gas leak killed 12 people and sickened hundreds more last week lacked federal environmental clearance but had been issued state permits to operate anyway, exposing a potentially dangerous enforcement gap in the country’s laws https://apnews.com/d154ae7340eb94282076a3484226b009 17 comments worldnews
- Study: Racial Health Coverage Gaps Narrow, Especially in Expanded Medicaid States | Affordable Care Act has reduced disparities in uninsured rates and other health care metrics, according to new Commonwealth Fund report https://morningconsult.com/2020/01/16/racial-health-coverage-gaps-have-lessened-especially-in-expanded-medicaid-states/ 20 comments politics
- Census: US inequality grew, including in heartland states. The gap between the haves and have-nots in the United States grew last year to its highest level in more than 50 years of tracking income inequality, according to U.S. Census Bureau figures released Thursday. https://apnews.com/bfa51032ee27470c9f908914328eea99 11 comments politics
- Ted Cruz becomes GOP frontrunner in Iowa despite never leading polls: The Texas senator and conservative firebrand has closed the gap on real-estate mogul Donald Trump and is now trailing Trump by only a margin of 25% to 23% in the Hawkeye State http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/24/ted-cruz-frontrunner-iowa-poll 18 comments politics
- With the gap between former first lady Hillary Clinton and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders closing in Granite State polls, Sanders chose to discuss a different gap during a visit to the Governor’s Inn on Sunday morning. http://www.fosters.com/article/20150628/news/150629340 6 comments politics
- Kansas reaps the whirlwind of its right-wing experiment -- Even after Republicans hacked away at education and highways and fiddled with payments for its pension program, the state still faces a $400 million gap. -- Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback (R) proposed raising taxes over the weekend. http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/kansas-reaps-the-whirlwind-of-its-right-wing-experiment/2015/06/03/e19e6696-0974-11e5-95fd-d580f1c5d44e_story.html?tid=trending_strip_6 9 comments politics
- The U.S. economy has grown faster—and scored higher on many other macroeconomic metrics—when the President of the United States is a Democrat rather than a Republican. For many measures, the performance gap is both large and statistically significant. http://www.nber.org/papers/w20324 273 comments politics
- Unions to banks: Pay up. Instead of raising taxes, labor leaders in collective-bargaining talks has a proposal for closing state budget gaps: Go after financial institutions that ripped off governments via LIBOR manipulation. http://prospect.org/article/sticking-it-banks?utm_source=daily+digest&utm_campaign=1aca816a25-dd_5_10_135_10_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e4428ba350-1aca816a25-10889049 363 comments politics
- NC Senate Republicans also want to abolish the state’s personal and corporate income taxes. To close the revenue gap they would raise the sales tax from 6.75% to 8.05%, quadruple the currently-lower tax on groceries from 2% to 8.05% and quintuple the tax on property transactions. http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21571917-state-turns-solidly-republican-farewell-purple 8 comments politics
- (Reuters) - China unveiled sweeping tax reforms on Tuesday to make wealthy state-owned firms, property speculators and the rich pay more to narrow a yawning gap between an urban elite and hundreds of millions of rural poor. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/05/us-china-economy-reform-idusbre9140ql20130205 76 comments worldnews
- The Pirate Party fits the political gap: 'two years ago, hardly anyone knew that the Pirate Party even existed; now, all of a sudden, it has won seats in state parliaments in four successive elections, and a new poll puts them at 11% of Germany's national vote.' http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/may/18/germany-pirate-party-political-gap 130 comments worldnews
- The land of unlimited inequality - The United States is well on its way to becoming the most unequal society on the planet. An extensive economic analysis of the growing gap between the wealthy and everyone else, summarized in last Sunday’s Washington Post, provides striking evidence of this trend. http://wsws.org/articles/2011/jun2011/pers-j23.shtml 5 comments politics
- Minnesota Moves to Make the Rich Pay More. Like most states, Minnesota has a big budget problem. But unlike most states, it’s looking to the well-heeled to help fill the gap. http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/raising_minnesota_20110226/ 5 comments politics
- With just 12% of the U.S. population, California has almost a third of the nation's welfare recipients. 15.3% of all Californians live in poverty. The state budget gap for 2009-10 was $45.5 billion, or 53% of total state spending - the largest in any state's history. http://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2010/11/05/the_golden_state_still_doesnt_get_it_98744.html 3 comments economy