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<blockquote data-quote="BrownArmy" data-source="post: 1313141" data-attributes="member: 18225"><p>Income equality is coming home to roost:</p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/23/upshot/the-american-middle-class-is-no-longer-the-worlds-richest.html?_r=0" target="_blank"><strong>The American middle class is no longer the world's richest</strong>...</a></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>"The American middle class, long the most affluent in the world, has lost that distinction.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>While the wealthiest Americans are outpacing many of their global peers, a New York Times analysis shows that across the lower- and middle-income tiers, citizens of other advanced countries have received considerably larger raises over the last three decades.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>After-tax middle-class incomes in Canada — substantially behind in 2000 — now appear to be higher than in the United States. The poor in much of Europe earn more than poor Americans.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>The <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/23/upshot/about-the-data.html" target="_blank">numbers, based on surveys</a> conducted over the past 35 years, offer some of the <a href="http://www.lisdatacenter.org/" target="_blank">most detailed publicly available comparisons</a> for different income groups in different countries over time. They suggest that most American families are paying a steep price for high and rising income inequality..."</em></p><p></p><p></p><p>Well, there's that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BrownArmy, post: 1313141, member: 18225"] Income equality is coming home to roost: [URL='http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/23/upshot/the-american-middle-class-is-no-longer-the-worlds-richest.html?_r=0'][B]The American middle class is no longer the world's richest[/B]...[/URL] [I] "The American middle class, long the most affluent in the world, has lost that distinction. While the wealthiest Americans are outpacing many of their global peers, a New York Times analysis shows that across the lower- and middle-income tiers, citizens of other advanced countries have received considerably larger raises over the last three decades. After-tax middle-class incomes in Canada — substantially behind in 2000 — now appear to be higher than in the United States. The poor in much of Europe earn more than poor Americans. The [URL='http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/23/upshot/about-the-data.html']numbers, based on surveys[/URL] conducted over the past 35 years, offer some of the [URL='http://www.lisdatacenter.org/']most detailed publicly available comparisons[/URL] for different income groups in different countries over time. They suggest that most American families are paying a steep price for high and rising income inequality..."[/I] Well, there's that. [/QUOTE]
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