2012-09-20, 14:56 | Link #23824 | |
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Income Data Shows Widening Gap Between New York City’s Richest and Poorest
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/20/ny...hows.html?_r=1
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2012-09-20, 14:58 | Link #23825 | |
Not Enough Sleep
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: R'lyeh
Age: 48
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forgot being afraid of china swallowing your country, the corporations already bought it.
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2012-09-20, 15:37 | Link #23826 | |
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Age: 40
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The 2007 vs 2011 census data shows the top 1% cut-off has increased from 181,000 to 230,000. The average income in the top 1% is now 475,000. There are only 275,000 people in this group. The average income across all Canadians is 36,000 and has stayed relatively flat. |
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2012-09-20, 16:50 | Link #23828 |
AS Oji-kun
Join Date: Nov 2006
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Share of income earned by the top 10% of US Households: 1917-2008
Source: Emmanuel Saez, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley We have returned to levels of inequaity unseen since before the Great Depression. We all know how that turned out. It wasn't pretty. I had the good fortune to grow up during that period between 1950 and 1980 when most Americans participated in the massive expansion of our economy. Marginal income tax rates approached 90% for the top earners even under the Republican Administration of Dwight Eisenhower, yet the economy grew rapidly, and incomes rose across the board. Since Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980 a larger and larger share of income growth accrued to the people at the top of the pyramid. Top tax rates were cut repeatedly under Republican Adminstrations, and the primary source of profits in the American economy has shifted to the financial sector away from manufacturing and non-financial services. When economies are dominated by finance, the wealthy, who have much more to invest, will obviously benefit the most. The poorest Americans, those in the bottom fifth of earners, only saw their incomes grow by a little over one percent (in real terms) between 1980 and 2011. For people in the middle fifth, average incomes grew about 11% over those same three decades. The Census Bureau doesn't report an average for people in the top-fifth, just the boundary that distinguishes the fourth and fifth quintiles. For the least well-off people in the top-fifth of earners, their comparable growth rate was 41%. http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/incom...H01AR_2011.xls
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2012-09-20, 16:56 | Link #23830 | |
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 35
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Apparently we ARE allowed, but if the authorities come and check and find "standards not satisfactory and posing harm to neighbours and environment" we can get fined. Time to see if potato actually grows in our climate.
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2012-09-20, 17:00 | Link #23833 |
books-eater youkai
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Betweem wisdom and insanity
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Special Report: How Romney energy czar fuels business with politics
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...88J12L20120920 Iran attacked at U.N. Security Council over Syria aid http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...88J1CU20120920 That was rather expected. Will it be used for a reason for others sanctions aginst Iran ?
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2012-09-20, 17:01 | Link #23834 | |
Not Enough Sleep
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: R'lyeh
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so easy to fine somebody your government has already sold out. they just haven't told you guys yet.
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2012-09-20, 17:07 | Link #23835 | |
NYAAAAHAAANNNNN~
Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 35
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Quite a number of our laws are quite vague anyway, including the tax-free on capital gains on profits on investment......
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2012-09-20, 18:06 | Link #23837 | |
NYAAAAHAAANNNNN~
Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 35
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With regards to the need of economists when we have scientists, it is about something called "job creation" - we needed people to sit around and create theories about markets utterly disregarding human psychology and basing it entirely on generic herd mentality scenarios so some people actually have something to do in life.
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2012-09-20, 18:35 | Link #23838 | |
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: France
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Lead (and other chemicals) pollution is pretty common and if there was a factory in your area, there is your answer. Western countries have laws forcing companies that move out to "clean" the area, but it's not done perfectly all the time (when companies go bankrupt for exemple) and it's sometimes not done AT ALL elsewhere in the world. |
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2012-09-20, 19:06 | Link #23839 | |
Onee!
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Auckland, NZ
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2012-09-20, 23:33 | Link #23840 | |
今宵の虎徹は血に飢えている
Join Date: Jan 2009
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Potato can grow here BTW...seen people doing it in their backyards before
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