or Some Are More Equal Than Others I read the news last month (oh boy), and this is the result. There were two stories (links below) that got my attention for the same reason, and eliminating the issues would be very easy. (Actually, there was a third story that interested me, but for a very different reason.) One had the headline “Judge rules Texas same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional”, and the other bore the headline “Dim prospects for House Republican plan to overhaul ...
Updated 03-29-2014 at 08:34 PM by PeterL
A Brief Description with Causes and Curative Measures To most people in the U.S. it is not news to learn that the top one percent of households make approximately twenty-two percent of the income, and the top twenty percent of households make more than fifty percent of the income. Many people don’t realize that the rather steep distribution is rather recent. In 1947 the top five percent of the people accounted for 17.5% of the income, and the top twenty percent 43%. And for comparison ...
Updated 11-18-2013 at 10:22 AM by PeterL