interventions: Money, That’s What I Want
Wealth Inequality in the United States
The Wealth Gap-The American Dollar
Upper-income households have seen more rapid growth in income in recent decades. The growth in income in recent decades has tilted to upper-income households. At the same time, the middle class, which once comprised the clear majority of Americans, is shrinking. Thus, a greater share of the nation’s aggregate income is now going to upper-income households and the share going to middle-and lower-income households is falling.
Why economic inequality matters
The rise in economic inequality in the U.S. is tied to several factors. These include technological change, globalization, the decline of unions and the eroding value of the minimum wage. Whatever the causes, the uninterrupted increase in inequality since 1980 has caused concern among members of the public, researchers, policy makers. (from the Pew Research Center)
Although unsanctioned by the community, a rogue act, this project was in September, 2020. The selection of images below documents three out of seven rogue interventions, Kingston, NY, 2020
materials: acrylic paint, acid-free ink text, archival watercolor paper (30 X 22 inches)
Wealth Inequality in the European Union
The Wealth Gap-The Euro
This is the state of wealth inequality in Europe:
Income inequality among European Union citizens has previously shown strikingly different developments compared with income inequality among United States citizens. The economic collapse of post-communist countries after 1989 led to a rapid increase in income inequality among the combined group of citizens of the current 28 EU members until 1993. But from then on, inequality in the countries that now constitute the EU28 declined from 1994-2008 and thereafter remained broadly stable up to 2015, in contrast to increasing inequality in the US. (from the World Economic Forum)
The images below document three out of seven rogue interventions. Kingston, NY 2020.
materials: acrylic paint, acid-free ink text, archival watercolor paper (30 X 22 inches)
