December 02, 2015
A New Report Shows Just How Unequal America Is
The Institute for Policy Studies is a DC-based organization that describes itself as “Washington’s first progressive multi-issue think tank,” one comprised of “a community of public scholars and organizers.” It’s…
The Institute for Policy Studies is a DC-based organization that describes itself as “Washington’s first progressive multi-issue think tank,” one comprised of “a community of public scholars and organizers.” It’s just finished a depressing but not entirely surprising study, “The Forbes 400…and the Rest of Us,” which is exactly what it sounds like: The Institute took a look at the earnings of the super rich folks who make up the Forbes 400 list and compared them to the rest of the country. As Donald Trump would say, the gap is tremendous. To no one’s surprise, the wealthiest Americans are really really really wealthy.
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