At 04:36 PM 3/8/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Refer him to Top Heavy, by Edward Wolff,
>pub by Twentieth Century Fund
>(now called The Century Foundation).
>
>Anudder one a' dem rotten libs.
>
>see youse.
>
>mbs
>(feeling New Jersey this afternoon).
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> 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
>> ---------------
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
Rich Gibson
Program Coordinator of Social Studies
Wayne State University
College of Education
Detroit MI 48202
http://www.pipeline.com/~rgibson/index.html http://www.pipeline.com/~rgibson/meap.html
Life travels upward in spirals.
Those who take pains to search the shadows
of the past below us, then, can better judge the
tiny arc up which they climb,
more surely guess the dim
curves of the future above them.