Regular
reports on the growing Poverty, Unemployment, Debt and Inequality of
the neo-capitalist world
USA:
“Data
from the 2013 [Survey of Consumer Finances] confirm that the shares
of income and wealth held by affluent families are at modern
historically high levels,”
“The
2013 SCF reveals substantial disparities in the evolution of income
and net worth since the previous time the survey was conducted, in
2010,”
“The
2010-2013 SCF found that even though real gross domestic product grew
by 2.1 percent and civilian unemployment fell from 9.9 percent to 7.5
percent, only families at 'the very top of the income distribution
saw widespread income gains,' though mean median income levels still
lagged behind 2007 numbers.”
“...
family in the middle income bracket (40th to 90th percentiles) saw
'very little' change in average real incomes and still have not
recovered losses from 2010 and 2007. Families at the bottom of the
income distribution continued to see “substantial declines” in
average real incomes, a continuing trend from the previous two
surveys.”
“The
top percentile of Americans also increased their wealth share since
2010, corresponding to a loss in wealth for the bottom 90 percent of
Americans, according to the Fed data.”
“The
wealth share of the top 3 percent climbed from 44.8 percent in 1989
to 51.8 percent in 2007 and 54.4 percent in 2013. … The share of
wealth held by the bottom 90 percent fell from 33.2 percent in 1989
to24.7 percent in 2013,”
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