Viral video shows how wealth is really distributed

• Leisure inequality: Who's bumming around more?

  Sure, the wealthy earn more money...but they work a lot harder for it.

  So says a new study that found that while the income gap between the rich and poor has grown since the 1980s, the leisure divide has widened too.

  Highly educated men, who generally have higher incomes, had only 33.2 hours of leisure time a week by 2007, down 1.2 hours from 1985, according to the three National Bureau of Economic MORE

  Tami Luhby - May 2, 2012 9:23 AM ET
  Posted in: educated, income inequality, leisure, poor, rich, wealthy

• When in Boston, order the frozen lasagna

  If you've ever been out at a restaurant and have been surprised to see an additional meals tax tacked on to the bill, you are not alone. The Tax Foundation, a nonpartisan research group, just put out a report about the absurdity and complexity (two words never associated with taxes, right?) of some of these local levies.

  Among the key findings: Chicago, Jacksonville, Indianapolis, Seattle, Denver and Washington D.C. are among MORE

  Paul R. La Monica - Mar 2, 2012 10:57 AM ET
  Posted in: cities, poor, taxes

• 650 million escape extreme poverty. Thanks China!

  Extreme poverty in the developing world is on the decline, according to estimates released by the World Bank. And you can thank China's powerhouse economy for most of it.

  Nearly 650 million people escaped extreme poverty -- living on less than $1.25 a day -- between 1981  and 2008, according to the World Bank's survey. That poverty line is the average for the world's poorest 10 to 20 countries.

  The  numbers have MORE

  Tami Luhby - Mar 1, 2012 5:54 PM ET
  Posted in: poor, poverty, world bank