Income Inequality- Econmovies Avengers: Endgame

Hey internet, this is Jacob Clifford. Avengers: Endgame was awesome and it included some great examples to help you learn about income inequality. The goal of this episode was to help you see both sides of the deabte and introduce aspects of the gender pay gap and the Lorenz curve that you may not have seen before. Let me know what you think in the comments below.

Here are the sources that I pulled from and some articles to make you think about income inequality

Lorenz Curve Data
https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2018/demo/p60-263.pdf

Gender Pay Gap
https://www.vox.com/2018/2/19/17018380/gender-wage-gap-childcare-penalty

Weight Gap
https://www.forbes.com/sites/freekvermeulen/2011/03/22/the-price-of-obesity-how-your-salary-depends-on-your-weight/#5dfc88a63d9a

Income Mobility

Some amazing findings on income mobility in the US including this: the image of a static 1 and 99 percent is false