Anudder one a' dem rotten libs.
see youse.
mbs (feeling New Jersey this afternoon).
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> From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of
> digloria at mindspring.com
> Sent: Monday, March 08, 1999 4:28 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: teaching social inequality / income
>
>
> a request from another list, send replies to list and
> i'll forward or
> directly to ray at HUTCHR at gbms01.uwgb.edu
>
> thanks, kelley
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>
> Thought I would direct everyone to an article given to
> me by our
> economist from the September-October 1996 issue of
> Challenge magazine
> by Timothy Smeeding on America's Income Inequality:
> Where do we stand
> which shows that of twenty five industrial nations,
> the US has the most
> unequal distribution of any country except the Soviet
> Union. It was kind
> of a show-stopper in our social problems class this morning.
>
> Can someone direct me to more recent information
> concerning lifetime
> wealth and the estate tax data? I have an older write
> up of this (average
> income was $27,000 so it probably is a decade old).
> This is the data from
> the estate taxes filed with IRS which show lifetime
> wealth; 90 percent of
> all Americans have net wealth of only some $30,000 and
> half of this group
> (45 percent) have lifetime wealth of less than $3000
> at the time of this
> earlier information. Anyone seen more recent data?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Ray
>
>
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>