Search over 1,700, often surprising, info-bites covering food, hunger, farming, inequality, living democracy—and more. A public database developed by the Small Planet Institute research team:
Average blue-collar household in US only retains 20-25 percent of its income after debts and taxes
US cuts poverty rate roughly in half (23% to 11%) between 1960-1974
Income of $34,000 after tax puts you in the world richest 1%, 50% of these people from US
Between 1990-2007 poorest 40% increased its share of total income less than 1%
Inequality in China is becoming more extreme
14.7 million children in poverty in the US costs the country $500 billion annually
World Bank Poverty Numbers Explained
US people living in poverty suffer diabetes at rate almost two-thirds higher than those well above p
Lost annual tax income is five times amount needed to halve world poverty by 2015
7.6 trillion stashed in tax havens, equaling 8% of world's personal financial wealth
