Must Read: The most unequal place in America

[sinkingfeeling]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/29/opinion/sutter-lake-providence-income-inequality/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

This is a long piece, containing several wonderful graphs showing the effects of income inequality on America. It's the story of the poorest county in America with the greatness income gap between the haves and the have-nots. Just wish every school kid had to read it.

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My journey to Lake Providence started with a poll.

Readers of this column voted for me to cover income inequality as part of my Change the List project, which focuses on pushing for social change in places that fall at the bottom of an index or ranking. With 32,000 votes tallied, America's rich-poor gap was the top pick.

In your eyes, it's the No. 1 social justice issue of our time -- a continuation of the civil rights movement, which included a push for jobs and economic justice as well as racial equality.

Since the late 1970s, the gap between rich and poor has widened to Grand Canyon proportions -- pushing America toward a two-class society. People have a harder time getting ahead now than at any time since the Great Depression.

The nation is more economically split, according to the CIA, than Iran or Nigeria.

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[Laelth]

1. k&r for exposure. n/t

-Laelth

[seveneyes]

2. I would have guessed NYC, LA or Frisco

Certainly for the number of people on either side of the balance.

[CFLDem]

19. I would've guessed Chicago

considering how segregated the city is.

[Laelth]

3. Just adding this. The Japanese are pretty darned smart. n/t

-Laelth

[Laelth]

5. Also adding this.

The Japanese learned modern, capitalist, liberalism from us when we were very liberal, and just look at the results. Liberalism works, and Japan is the proof.

-Laelth

[JNelson6563]

4. Says it all.

Rather succinctly.

Great find, thanks for posting!

Julie

[BlancheSplanchnik]

6. sobering.

[FailureToCommunicate]

7. Good read. Much of the works sited come from "the Spirit Level" by

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epidemiologists Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett. A must read.





Here is a longer compilation of good reads on income inequality from the OP's link:

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/23/opinion/sutter-99-inequality-must-read/index.html?iid=article_sidebar

[Laelth]

8. Your sig. line rocks, as does the second picture in your post. n/t

-Laelth

[FailureToCommunicate]

10. Thanks. That rich/poor image is a real place...

San Paulo, Brazil.





Sadly, we all know places like that.

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[Laelth]

12. I had no doubt that it was real.

Thanks for letting me know that it came from Sao Paulo.

-Laelth

[hue]

9. K&R!!

[FarCenter]

11. Maybe the Japanese are so well off because they stopped having sex and are killing themselves

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_Japan

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/20/young-people-japan-stopped-having-sex

[Laelth]

13. I suspect rational liberalism has more to do with their quality of life. n/t

-Laelth

[DhhD]

16. Rice diet from birth. Little fat effects brain and trophic hormone development.

Newtism: late onset of maturity. Delayed sensitivity to the secondary sexual hormones.

http://faculty.stcc.edu/AandP/AP/AP2pages/Units14to17/endocrine/hypothal.htm

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0016648082902349

[FarCenter]

18. But they also eat a lot of fish.

[rwsanders]

14. Interesting opinion piece from Chris Hedges about the coming consequences of this...

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19658-our-invisible-revolution

[fasttense]

20. Wow, good read

Chris Hedges actually sounding hopeful.

Thanks for posting this. You should make it a post by itself.

[rwsanders]

21. Don't really know how.

Been reading DU for years, but never figured out how to make an original post. Probably because I only go to the front page.

[mountain grammy]

15. K & R for a good read on the biggest problem America faces.

[marmar]

17. k/r