Monday, March 26, 2012

Income Inequality Growing


The Rich Get Even Richer. The New York Times. By STEVEN RATTNER Published: March 25, 2012
[excerpt] "In 2010, as the nation continued to recover from the recession, a dizzying 93 percent of the additional income created in the country that year, compared to 2009 — $288 billion — went to the top 1 percent of taxpayers, those with at least $352,000 in income. That delivered an average single-year pay increase of 11.6 percent to each of these households...."

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/26/opinion/the-rich-get-even-richer.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120326


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