Surf these sites: A Brief Look at Postwar U.S. Income Inequality -- Census Bureau 1996 paper pointing out the sharp decline in the percentage of income of the bottom 80% of American since the late 1960''s, taking the whole thirty years as a block. A Widening Income Gap? Hardly -- Mitchell B. Pearlstein, president of the Center of the American Experiment, gives statistics and facts about "the gap between rich and poor". China: A Shared Poverty To Uneven Wealth? -- A George Washington University analysis of how economic reforms (away from socialism) have caused a widening income gap in China, and yet raised the standards of living of the Chinese people. Closing the Wealth Gap -- A speech by P. J. O''Rourke, nationally syndicated columnist and award-winning author, on income disparity. Growing Income Disparity and the Middle Class Squeeze -- Catholic Social Justice takes a stand against income disparity, which it says is growing fast in the US. Includes statistics. IGC articles on income inequality -- A collection of online articles from various organisations concerning income inequality in the US and abroad, claiming there is a growing gap, that this is bad, and that it should be "fixed" by government force. Income Disparity: The Gap Between the Rich and the Poor -- The final word on the income gap. How much of a problem is wealth versus poverty? Inequality of Wealth and Incomes -- One of the first major articles on income disparity, by one of the greatest and most revered of economic theorists, Ludwig Von Mises. The "Gap" Between Rich and Poor -- "There is something shameful, even obscene, about the fact that the percentage of the worlds'' people living in the most desperate poverty can drop from 98% to about 20% in less than 2 centuries, and self-important busybodies like this are bent on destroying the very foundations of what made it all possible." The Causes of Income Inequality -- Addresses the causes of the income gap, and some proposed solutions. The Income Gap -- National Public Radio''s John Ydstie investigates the growing disparity in real income between Americans in this special series from Morning Edition The New Inequality (from Boston Review) -- MIT''s prestigious Boston Review discusses the rise of income inequality in the United States with a variety of economists and proposes some remedies, all along socialist lines. The Truth about Income Inequality -- Dramatic stories portraying a widening inequality of income and a disappearing middle class in America have permeated the media in recent years. This article presents some statistics and arguments on that subject.
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