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Wealth inequality in America
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Without doing any research, how do you think wealth is distributed in the U.S.? Divide the population into quintiles and assign a percentage of total wealth to each. How much total wealth is held by the bottom 20%, second 20%, third 20%, fourth 20%, and top 20%)?

Then watch the video. How close were you? What do you think about this issue?





And because there will be the inevitable "equality of opportunity" commentary: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/06/what-matters-inequality-or-opportuniy/393272/?utm_source=fbb
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR





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Wealth inequality in America - Belsnickel - 07-26-2017, 03:56 PM
RE: Wealth inequality in America - GMDino - 07-26-2017, 04:05 PM
RE: Wealth inequality in America - Yojimbo - 07-26-2017, 04:34 PM
RE: Wealth inequality in America - CKwi88 - 07-26-2017, 05:20 PM
RE: Wealth inequality in America - Yojimbo - 07-26-2017, 07:09 PM
RE: Wealth inequality in America - Yojimbo - 07-26-2017, 07:12 PM
RE: Wealth inequality in America - Yojimbo - 07-26-2017, 08:01 PM
RE: Wealth inequality in America - Benton - 07-27-2017, 01:56 PM
RE: Wealth inequality in America - Dill - 07-27-2017, 02:27 PM
RE: Wealth inequality in America - Dill - 07-27-2017, 02:40 PM
RE: Wealth inequality in America - xxlt - 07-27-2017, 02:42 PM

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