Tag: Studies of Wealth Inequity

9 Key Findings About Wealth in 2022
October 31, 2023
By Luc Schuster and Peter Ciurczak November 1, 2023 Newly released data from the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) provide our first picture of wealth coming out of the pandemic.…
Care Work and the Racial Wealth Gap
March 17, 2023
By Anne Calef Care work has forever been critical to the health and basic functioning of our society. However, as we detailed in our September 2022 report with SkillWorks, Care…
Massachusetts shows progress on poverty, but remains worse than 21 other states due to high cost of living
September 21, 2022
By Anne Calef Among the many indicators of well-being that we track, poverty may be the most important. Our region clearly has the aggregate resources to meet every family’s basic…
The Stubborn Persistence of the Gender Pay Gap in Massachusetts
March 31, 2022
By Anne Calef Massachusetts has some of the strongest equal pay laws in the country, and yet women still earn an average of $0.81 for every dollar that men make,…