Lack of access to learning these skills is a barrier to these jobs and the income that comes with them ... that lifted millions of people out of poverty. One example is the Rural Electrification ...

Income inequality ... those below the poverty threshold. By expanding access to healthcare for these privileged groups, Medicare and Medicaid ultimately aimed to reduce inequality.

Another prime motivation for minimum wage policies is to reduce income inequality by improving the lot of those ... but only as part of a broader policy effort toward significant poverty alleviation.

Kristie L. Ebi ([email protected]) is a professor in the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington, in Seattle. Jeremy J. Hess is a professor of environmental and occupational ...