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May 14, 2024 · Rising income inequality, the disparity between the rich and the poor in the U.S., has been growing for decades. In 2021, the top 1% of earners controlled 32.3% of the nation's wealth, while the...
Jul 29, 2020 · The rich get richer, and they also get better sleep. A study by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that as salaries increase, so do hours of sleep per night. According to the study, the further away someone was from the poverty line, the more they slept.
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Jul 28, 2020 · The rich sleep more than people living near or below the poverty level, according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The agency surveyed nearly 140,000 adults in the...
Sep 24, 2023 · In short, over the last four decades, the richest Americans got even richer. Let’s use the top spot to illustrate the gains. In 1983, Gordon Getty topped the Forbes 400 with a net worth of roughly $2 billion. By 1999, Bill Gates lifted the number-one spot up to $85 billion.
Sep 28, 2020 · Thomas Piketty’s (2014) striking best-seller with his largely researched and data-based debunking of the post-war optimism and the so-called Kuznets Curve has brought the discussions about wealth...
May 23, 2016 · It shows that, from the 1940s through the mid-1980s, the richest one person got a much smaller portion of the whole: That lasted until the late-1970s — and you saw what happened from then on. It’s...
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Mar 20, 2014 · There are both ethical and political reasons for wanting to address the growing gap between rich and poor, according to experts ranging from economists and political scientists to social workers...
