Eric Alterman - Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United Sta...

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Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality.

Eric Alterman

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Die Hälfte der US-amerikanischen Bevölkerung besitzt knapp zwei Prozent ihres Vermögens. Damit liegen die Vereinigten Staaten in der Nähe von Ruanda und Uganda und unter den Nationen wie Tunesien und Ägypten vor dem arabischen Frühling, gemessen am Grad der Einkommensungleichheit.

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