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

[Mark Kohut]

Decline of public wealth:
https://twitter.com/price_laborecon/status/817856877413494786

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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