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Re: That wealth inequality chart Rachel showed last night

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And Willard wants to give the top group even more wealth, as if 84% is not enough. And as for having to incentivize the 'job creators', since they already have 84% of the wealth and they are NOT currently creating many jobs, exactly how much of the remaining 16% must we give them before they will start creating those jobs Willard says they will IF they were able to get just one more tax cut?




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That wealth inequality chart Rachel showed last night
By: clo in FFFT
Fri, 22 Jun 12 10:03 PM 		Msg. 43739 of 65535

This is powerful!
Take note of where Americans THINK it is VS the reality.

That wealth inequality chart Rachel showed last night

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In last night's introduction to Rachel's interview with Chris Hayes about his new book, she showed a graph depicting the wealth distribution people prefer, the distribution they think exists and the actual distribution of wealth in America. Folks on the Twitter clamored for the link, and our intern Sally tells me there are a lot of requests for it in the Rachel@msnbc.com mailbox as well, so here it is.

It comes as part of a nice collection of related infographics on the Mother Jones site.

If you're a source material kind of person, the actual study is here (pdf) and includes another, longer chart, which one of the researchers, Dan Ariely, explains on his blog.

Also, you may be aware, Timothy Noah at Slate wrote a huge series about income inequality. Here's his write-up of the study that produced this chart.

http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/21/12345961-that-wealth-inequality-chart-rachel-showed-last-night?lite

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