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FREE LUNCH!!!

JUAN GONZALEZ: As voters head to the polls in Nevada and South Carolina Saturday, the economy remains one of the top issues for voters across party lines. Today, we’re going to spend the rest of the hour examining the growing income gap in the United States. Economic figures show that in 2005, the wealthiest 0.1 percent of the country’s population had nearly as much income as all 150 million Americans who make up the lower economic half of the country. Of each dollar people earned in 2005, the top ten percent got 48.5 cents, the highest percentage since 1929, just before the Great Depression.

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/1/18/free_lunch_how_the_wealthiest_americans

Posted on January 22, 2008 at 02:08 PM   |   Comment  (2 comments)