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October 20, 2014

Fed’s Yellen Wades Into Income Inequality Debate

Broc Romanek, CompensationStandards.com

Last week, Fed Reserve Chair Janet Yellen delivered a speech about how income inequality concerns her as she issued a warning about the risks of it, as noted in this Huffington Post article.

Here’s other info recently published about income inequality:

S&P study about income inequality dampening economic growth

NY Times’ opinion piece on “Inequality Is Not Inevitable

Salon.com’s “Robert Reich: “Paid-what-you’re-worth” is a toxic myth

Analysis of Robert Reich’s views

– As You Sow’s new focus on executive compensation includes a number of resources about income inequality