Here is another New York Times article. This one touches on some of the themes that keep coming up in the income inequality discussion, such as the role of the global economy, education, government taxes policy, and the changes in the income distribution during the last 30 years:
. . . From World War II through the 1970s, while most Americans were getting solid raises every year, the incomes of the richest 1 percent were doing only a little better than inflation. Since the 1980s, the two groups have switched places. The affluent have received huge gains, and everyone else’s pay growth has slowed down. For the last six decades, in other words, the American economy has been much more of a zero-sum game than we might like to believe.
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The L-curve
The L-curve has an alternative approach to visualizing income distribution using a football field. However, I was inspired by the the video. In it he mentions the importance of investment income for high income earners. While labor income is the way most people make their money. So for my next set of graphs I will be exploring what components make up the income of the highest income brackets.
[tags]income distribution, US income distribution, US income inequality, income inequality[/tags]
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