And, yes, I DO take it personally: Six people have as much wealth as 90.7 million of the 302.2 million people in the U.S.

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And, yes, I DO take it personally

Thursday, December 08, 2011

Six people have as much wealth as 90.7 million of the 302.2 million people in the U.S.

laura at daily kos...

We're talking about the top .00000002 percent.

laura is posting on research done by Sylvia Allegretto, a labor economist at the University of California at Berkeley’s Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics...

such a yawning gap of wealth inequality is unconscionable...

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