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World leaders gather in Seville to confront the widening gap between rich and poor. The four day Financing for Development ...
Everyone knows that the rich have been pulling away from the poor in terms of income and wealth. Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez, not to mention the CBO, have established that pretty definitively ...
The gap between rich and poor is getting bigger in the world's richest countries - and particularly the United States - as top earners' incomes soar while others' stagnate, according to a 30 ...
In this article, we will look at the 30 countries with the widest gap between rich and poor. If you want to skip our detailed analysis, go directly to the 5 Countries with the Widest Gap Between ...
A much smaller number of Republicans (56%) agreed. Nearly three-quarters (73%) of independents subscribed to the “rich get richer” perception. One of Obama’s assertions is that the growing gap between ...
Even Piketty admits that the gap between the poor and the rich has not grown for most of the twentieth century. At the same time, he does criticize the fact that “inequalities” in terms of ...
Researchers Examine Gap Between Rich And Poor Steve Inskeep talks to Harvard economist Nathan Hendren, a co-author of the study, which shows social mobility in the United States is not decreasing.
Gap Between Rich and Poor Grows. Fed Report Details Families' Income Situations. January 22, 2003. By Albert B. Crenshaw. The rising economic tide of the late 1990s lifted the boats of almost all ...
NEW YORK — The income gap between rich and poor Americans grew to the widest in more than 40 years in 2011 as the poverty rate remained at almost a two-decade high.
A rich person might have a slight advantage in doing so, but not much. The gap has narrowed. Education is another good example in history. It used to be that only the elite and wealthy got an ...