Где эти загадочные бедняки?
83 percent of all U.S. stocks are in the hands of 1 percent of the people.
61 percent of Americans "always or usually" live paycheck to paycheck, which was up from 49 percent in 2008 and 43 percent in 2007.
66 percent of the income growth between 2001 and 2007 went to the top 1% of all Americans.
36 percent of Americans say that they don't contribute anything to retirement savings.
A staggering 43 percent of Americans have less than $10,000 saved up for retirement

Где эти загадочные бедняки?
24 percent of American workers say that they have postponed their planned retirement age in the past year.
Over 1.4 million Americans filed for personal bankruptcy in 2009, which represented a 32 percent increase over 2008.
• * *Only the top 5 percent of U.S. households have earned enough additional income to match the rise in housing costs since 1975.
• * *For the first time in U.S. history, banks own a greater share of residential housing net worth in the United States than all individual Americans put together.
• * *In 1950, the ratio of the average executive's paycheck to the average worker's paycheck was about 30 to 1. Since the year 2000, that ratio has exploded to between 300 to 500 to one.
• * *As of 2007, the bottom 80 percent of American households held about 7% of the liquid financial assets.
• * *The bottom 50 percent of income earners in the United States now collectively own less than 1 percent of the nation’s wealth.

Где эти загадочные бедняки?
Average Wall Street bonuses for 2009 were up 17 percent when compared with 2008.
• * *In the United States, the average federal worker now earns 60% MORE than the average worker in the private sector.
• * *The top 1 percent of U.S. households own nearly twice as much of America's corporate wealth as they did just 15 years ago.
• * *or the first time in U.S. history, more than 40 million Americans are on food stamps, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture projects that number will go up to 43 million Americans in 2011.

ой, как мне их всех жалко
they got money for pot, iphones, cars.. but can't save 10k..

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Где эти загадочные бедняки?
• * *Approximately 21 percent of all children in the United States are living below the poverty line in 2010 - the highest rate in 20 years.
• * *Despite the financial crisis, the number of millionaires in the United States rose a whopping 16 percent to 7.8 million in 2009.
• * *The top 10 percent of Americans now earn around 50 percent of our national income.

From The Business Insider


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И рядом с каждым проджектом
Олег, ты не там ищеш. Сейчас больше всего бедняков, если отслеживать по числу людей получающий Food Stamps: Louisiana 17. 6 % *West Virginia 16.2 % ( чисто Белый штат) Mississippi *15. 1 % Missouri 14. 8 % Kentucku 14. 7 Tennessee 14.5 % Maine 13.1 % ( чисто Белый штат)

• Despite the financial crisis, the number of millionaires in the United States rose a whopping 16 percent to 7.8 million in 2009.
• The top 10 percent of Americans now earn around 50 percent of our national income.
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I (L) this country . И где же 99% на которые ссылаются лузеры с Occupy Wall Street ?

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Что там Черчилль говорил о статистике?
Statistics are like a drunk with a lampost: used more for support than illumination.
Олег, ты не там ищеш
Я привожу в пример тех "бедных" которые живут рядом со мной. Во всех перечилсенных штатах я тоже был, пешком там никто не передвигается. И голодных детей нет. И все те кто получает фудстемпы наверняка к соседям в окно не заглядывают чтобы телевизор посмотреть. И какое отношение имеют люди, зрабатываюwие на бирже, к беднякам в Луизиане?
Жанна, зови коллег по сердобольности на форум, сама ты с нами не справишься. :-D :-D :-D

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