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Drunken Irishman

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3. While the 1% has improved - it shows the 90% has always had consistent levels...

Reply to Bill USA (Original post)

Sun Dec 22, 2013, 07:21 PM

Dec 2013

It wasn't the 1980s that killed economic equality. It never existed. Even your graph shows this. Sure, the rich got richer - but even before the rich got richer, it wasn't like the poor were getting richer. They weren't. The biggest increase came in the 40s and 50s, after World War II and the explosion of Middle Class America. Even then, the increase was barely noticeable.

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Any Hope Of American Equality Died In The 1980s (And Here's Proof) - HuffPo [View all] Bill USA Dec 2013 OP

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