| SciFiBoy said: Social Mobility?
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I found this:
http://www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/facts/index24.aspx
Unless I am reading it wrong, it looks like the US and all other developing countries are about the same.
Also, I found this line to be exactly what I am talking about with this thread:
Since 1974 there has been a growth in household income inequalities. In 1974 the 10 per cent of households with the highest incomes had, on average, three times the income of the lowest 10 per cent, by 2001/2 the gap had increased so that the richest households had four times the income of the poorest. This was despite the poorest households seeing a 30 per cent increase in their income in real terms
So while the gap has increased, the poor have gotten a lot richer. I will take a 30% increase in the poor's income anyday.
