Tag Archives: Winner take All Politics

Plutocracy in the USA: four views

1) From State of Working America an interactive graph of changes in average income and the top percentiles of US income. From  1939 to 1973, during the 24 years from the start of WW2 to the first oil crisis the … Continue reading

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Inequality in the USA – driven by politics?

1) Multi-part Slate series  The Great Divergence 2010:What’s causing America’s growing income inequality? by Timothy Noah examines changes in inequality in the USA and evaluates multiple explanations.  He introduces the series by writing: In the late 1970s, a half-century trend … Continue reading

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