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Article: A CHOICE, NOT AN ECHO.(Brief Article)
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- Alberta Report
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- September 27, 1999
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Scott McConnell provides a fascinating demographic snapshot of the United States in the September 18 New York Press (www.velocitynyc.com/nypress): "The richest 1% of Americans now have as much after-tax income as the lowest 38%--more than double the ratio that existed in 1977. The data also show that four out of five American households have a smaller slice of the national economic pie than they did 20 years ago. The share of the top one-fifth grew, 90% of the growth going to the richest 1%. The social consequences of the rise in the shares of the rich are softened by a general expansion of the economic pie, but the poor have not even benefited from that. Their real ...
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Article: COLUMN: Thoughts on the next ruling class
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... ... attention during my stay in the United States, nothing struck me more forcibly ... process). In the history of the United States, never before has so much intellectual ... is a condition that the next ruling class will be battling with throughout ...
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