Inequality. 3 major countries. from my labor economist acquaintance in Harrisburg

[Mark Kohut]

here's some answers to how the poor are doing in other countries vs
US...astounding figure for US here.

There is the American Economic Association happening in Chicago where these
charts are from....
big names headlining, inclu Piketty...

https://twitter.com/price_laborecon/status/817856042579202051

On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 10:04 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

> Income inequality is rising in France, China, and USA. And in much of
> the world. Why? And what can/should be done about it? Notice that in
> the USA, income inequality doubles from 1982 to 2012. Are the rich
> getting richer as the poor get poorer? Are the poor in the developing
> economies, such as China, India, Brazil, where inequality is rising
> doing better than the poor in the OECD and in the USA? Also, income
> may not be the best measure of the divide. Healthcare and health is a
> significant counter to the strict income inequality measure. For
> example, China got healthy before it got wealthy. The USA got wealthy
> but never healthy. And now seems ready make more people less healthy
> by rolling back the AHC that Obama made. When you look at how China
> has gotten wealthy, you can't help but consider if so much of that
> wealth came at the expense of USA. Would make a good Trump Tweet.
>
> On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 5:14 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> > A conference in Chicago today where he must be.
> >
> > https://twitter.com
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 5:11 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> https://twitter.com/price_laborecon/status/817855422094839808
> >
> >
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