Why Decry the Wealth Gap?

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Jan 26 09:17:53 PST 2000


Ken Hanly wrote:


>Why is this discourse about the wealth gap? I thought the original
>figures were
>about incomes.
>Last I read anything, they are not the same. I expect that wealth
>distribution is
>even more skewed than income distribution.

Yup, is. For U.S. stats, see <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/Wealth_distrib.html>. Figures from the 1998 Survey of Consumer Finances should start trickling out next month.

Doug



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