Salient to Investors:
Joseph Stiglitz said:
The richest 1% of Americans have doubled their wealth since 1980 and now hold 25% of the country’s wealth, yet the median income level in the US had not changed since the early 1990s.
The American dream has gone: the US has one of the worst opportunity rates in advanced economies, and a child’s life chances are more dependent on the income of the parents than most other industrial economies.
A major bipartisan effort over the past 20 years had markedly improved equality in Brazil, while Scandinavian countries were leading the way with the highest levels of equality.
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