Why Do Politicians in America Have So Much Money?
May 18, 2018
All this week we’ve been hearing about wealth in America, who’s got it, and who doesn’t. One thing is clear: your elected officials in Congress definitely have it.
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American Wealth: The Shifting Nature of Money and Power in Society
Since the Great Recession, and even before, it has been challenging for Americans to accrue wealth. Over the past half century the top 1 percent of income earners have seen their wealth increase sevenfold. Families in the top 10 percent of households have seen five fold increases in wealth. Those in the middle doubled their wealth. And those at the bottom of wealth distribution went from having no wealth to being in debt. Once you throw race into the equation those disparities balloon. We undertook a broad examination of how to understand modern wealth in the United States, and why it's so hard for the average American to get a piece of it.
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