Monday, December 06, 2010

Our Banana Republic - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/07/opinion/07kristof.html?src=me&ref=general

"The richest 1 percent of Americans now take home almost 24 percent of income, up from almost 9 percent in 1976. As Timothy Noah of Slate noted in an excellent series on inequality, the United States now arguably has a more unequal distribution of wealth than traditional banana republics like Nicaragua, Venezuela and Guyana."

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