The United States is, by every reasonable measure, the most unequal of the world’s rich countries. And this is not new development. Evidence of extreme and rising economic inequality in the US is quite overwhelming. In 1979, the top 1% earned about 9% of all income; in 2013, they earned 24%. The incomes of the top 0.1% have grown even faster. More than half of all economic growth since 1976 has ended up in the pockets of the top 1%. Meanwhile, the incomes of the shrinking middle class have stagnated, and the incomes of those with a high school education or less have fallen substantially. The purchasing power of the minimum wage has fallen by about 15% since 1979. One in five kids lives in poverty.Read rest here
Sunday, February 2, 2014
Tim Koechlin on Soaring US Inequality and Why It Matters
By Tim Koechlin
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