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- Fed Policy May Have Widened America’s Wealth Inequality http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/06/08/fed-policy-may-have-widened-americas-wealth-inequality-philadelphia-fed-paper-says/ 2 comments
- Wealth Inequality in America http://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?u=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dqpkkqnijnsm%26feature%3Dshare&a=jeur7x4gljq_zauadfzbfw 37 comments politics
- Wealth Inequality in America http://www.youtube.com/watch?amp%3Bfeature=youtu.be&v=QPKKQnijnsM 11 comments politics
- Wealth Inequality in America https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM 59 comments politics
- Wealth Inequality in America http://youtu.be/QPKKQnijnsM 3 comments politics
- Visualizing America’s “Wealth Inequality” https://yungfi.com/visualizing-americas-wealth-inequality 4 comments economics
- Visualizing America’s “Wealth Inequality” https://yungfi.com/visualizing-americas-wealth-inequality 30 comments economy
- 9 charts on wealth inequality in America. http://apps.urban.org/features/wealth-inequality-charts/ 5 comments politics
- Wealth inequality in America: It's worse than you think http://fortune.com/2014/10/31/inequality-wealth-income-us/?xid=nl_termsheet 13 comments economy
- Wealth inequality in America: It's worse than you think http://fortune.com/2014/10/31/inequality-wealth-income-us/?xid=yahoo_fortune 32 comments politics
- Wealth Inequality in America - How it Really Is http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2012/06/21/12345961-that-wealth-inequality-chart-rachel-showed-last-night?lite 5 comments politics
- Wealth Inequality in America, Perception vs Reality http://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=pjrfnnc6b-dmwfcmc_wciq&u=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dvttbhl_kdoo%26feature%3Dshare 3 comments politics
- The most depressing chart ever about wealth inequality in America. http://www.businessinsider.com/us-wealth-inequality-2010-7#half-of-america-owns-only-25-of-countrys-wealth-the-top-1-owns-a-third-of-it-2 53 comments economy
- Cheap Credit Is Widening Wealth Inequality Across America’s Racial Lines https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-10/cheap-credit-is-widening-wealth-inequality-across-america-s-racial-lines 131 comments business
- How Debt And Social Welfare Failures Have Caused Wealth Inequality In America http://poponomics.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/how-debt-and-social-welfare-failures.html 2 comments economy
- Inequality in America: 6 charts that show how much more wealth the 1% have over everyone else https://www.businessinsider.com/charts-why-inequality-is-a-major-american-political-issue 12 comments politics
- Infographic - Wealth Inequality in America by the numbers: 1% of Americans have 40% of all the nations wealth. The bottom 80% only have 7% between them... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM 13 comments politics
- 15 Mind-Blowing Facts About Wealth And Inequality In America http://www.businessinsider.com/15-charts-about-wealth-and-inequality-in-america-2010-4# 4 comments economy
- 15 Mind-Blowing Facts About Wealth And Inequality In America http://www.businessinsider.com/facts-about-inequality-in-america-2011-11?slop=1#slideshow-start 55 comments politics
- 15 Mind-Blowing Facts About Wealth And Inequality In America http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/04/09/businessinsider-15-charts-about-wealth-and-inequality-in-america-2010-4.dtl 215 comments politics
- 'Extreme inequality was the preexisting condition': How COVID-19 widened America's wealth gap https://abcnews.go.com/business/extreme-inequality-preexisting-condition-covid-19-widened-americas/story?id=71401975 5 comments politics
- No, Elon Musk, America isn't a "gerontocracy": The real issue is massive wealth inequality https://www.salon.com/2022/06/18/no-elon-musk-america-isnt-a-gerontocracy-the-real-issue-is-massive-wealth-inequality/ 424 comments politics
- The Shocking Truth About Inequality In America: The Top 1 Percent Have 40 Percent of All Of The Nation’s Wealth http://www.nationalmemo.com/the-shocking-truth-about-inequality-in-america-the-top-1-percent-have-40-percent-of-all-of-the-nations-wealth/#.uwvvueoqsdk.reddit 778 comments politics
- In America, 5% of the population owns 68% of the wealth. Meanwhile, the bottom 80% only own 9% of the wealth. And, for three decades, this inequality has been getting worse. http://www.whyweworry.com/2009/07/21/americans-getting-skewed-part-1/ 54 comments reddit.com
- Critique of viral "Wealth Inequality in America" video: Lee Doren explains what the video left out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcsvAT4JT-g 4 comments politics
- The United States is the wealthiest country in the world, but your average person wouldn’t know that: median wealth in America is less than 1/3 of that in countries with lower inequality http://russellbulletin.com/2013/06/03/united-states-wealth-inequality/ 47 comments politics
- The 'mind-blowing' surge of wealth inequality in America -- Higher today than ever in America's history http://trueslant.com/sahilkapur/2010/04/09/the-mind-blowing-surge-of-wealth-inequality-in-america/ 34 comments reddit.com
- The Cantillon Effect: Why U.S. Billionaires’ Wealth Increased by $2.1T During the Pandemic. Inequality continues to grow in America, which will face an explosive social situation for years to come. https://ssaurel.medium.com/the-cantillon-effect-why-u-s-billionaires-wealth-increased-by-2-1t-during-the-pandemic-ca1ed883d460 47 comments economy
- The Richest 1% Have Captured America's Wealth -- What's It Going to Take to Get It Back? "The U.S. already had the highest inequality of wealth in the industrialized world prior to the financial crisis -- and it's gotten even worse." http://www.alternet.org/economy/145705/the_richest_1%25_have_captured_america's_wealth_--_what's_it_going_to_take_to_get_it_back 4 comments politics
- Wealth inequality in America: "People who are shorter-lived tend to make less, which means that if you raise the retirement age, low-income populations would be subsidising the lives of higher-income people." http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2013/03/wealth-inequality 17 comments politics
- This image perfectly sums up inequality in America, according to the Internet: "the wealthy continue to see advantages in wealth and economic opportunity, thanks in part to economic policies that favor them...if you listen to some policymakers in this country, wealth inequality isn't the problem" http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/04/08/this-image-perfectly-sums-up-inequality-in-america-according-to-the-internet/ 183 comments politics
- Bernie Sanders: "And today when we look at America, we have to understand that we have an obscene level of income and wealth inequality, the highest of any major country on earth, and worse in America today than at any time since 1929." http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/politics/2015/01/16/sanders-discusses-budget-priorities/21867349/ 184 comments politics
- America’s wealthiest 25 percent of households own 87 percent of all U.S. wealth. How the middle class face growing income inequality in the new era of the psychopath corporatocracy. http://www.mybudget360.com/wealth-in-america-corporations-control-grow-income-inequality-top-25-percent-control-87-percent-finanical-wealth/ 9 comments politics
- Putin has amassed enormous wealth for himself and the oligarchs that support him. Is the state of wealth inequality really so different in America? The top 1% of Americans own more wealth than the entire middle-class combined. That sure sounds like an oligarchy to me. https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1499108172354580480 5059 comments economy
- Sanders has repeatedly condemned America’s huge wealth inequality, lack of universal healthcare and a corrupt campaign finance system, drawing significant support for his presidential campaign. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2016/04/22/462072/biden-sanders-thinking-big-/ 6 comments politics
- How the Legal System Was Deep-Sixed to Serve Elite America and Occupy Wall Street Became Inevitable: As was not true in recent decades, the American relationship with wealth inequality is in a state of rapid transformation. http://www.alternet.org/economy/152861/how_the_legal_system_was_deep-sixed_to_serve_elite_america_and_occupy_wall_street_became_inevitable/?page=entire 27 comments politics
- Ray Dalio in his new book "The changing world order" predicts there is a 30% chance that America will enter into a major “civil-war-type” conflict within the next five years due to the confluence of rising U.S. debt, near zero interest rates and widening wealth inequality. https://www.forbes.com/sites/maneetahuja/2021/11/29/ray-dalio-says-americas-decline-will-upend-lives-not-just-portfolios-the-billionaire-investor-paints-a-dire-scenario-in-his-new-book/ 39 comments cryptocurrency
- "I Don't Think Billionaires Should Exist": Sanders Proposes Wealth Tax to Slash Fortunes of Nation's Ultra-Rich. "Enough is enough. We are going to take on the billionaire class, substantially reduce wealth inequality in America, and stop our democracy from turning into a corrupt oligarchy." https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/09/24/i-dont-think-billionaires-should-exist-sanders-proposes-wealth-tax-slash-fortunes 2889 comments politics
- Cancer in America is way down: mortality rates declined each year from 1991 through 2016, averting 2.6 million deaths. Gains have been reaped mostly by the wealthy; the impact of limited access to treatment for the poorest Americans has increased inequality wealth-based inequality. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-08/cancer-in-america-is-way-down-for-the-wealthy-anyway 701 comments science
- Sen. Sanders calls for wealth tax at AFL-CIO convention: "We need a tax system which asks the billionaire class to pay its fair share of taxes and which reduces the obscene degree of wealth inequality in America." http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/6/sen-sanders-calls-wealth-tax-afl-cio-convention/ 1471 comments politics