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handmade34

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Mon Jul 15, 2013, 03:10 PM Jul 2013

A Political History of American Inequality

"Americans today live in a starkly unequal society. We have, in fact, more inequality today in the United States than Americans have experienced at almost any time in the last century. And our gaps in income and wealth now run deeper than the divides in virtually any other democratic and developed economy..."

http://scalar.usc.edu/works/growing-apart-a-political-history-of-american-inequality/index
(with interactive chart)


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