[Peace-discuss] Re: [Announce] [Peace] Re: Unity March this Saturday

[Brian Dolinar]

I got the figures from Democracy Now yesterday.
If you want to debate the numbers please do so amongst yourselves
don't send emails out to the long list of people I simply intended to notify
about the Unity March.

BD

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Bob Illyes <illyes at uiuc.edu> wrote:

> The figure is from an AP story carried in the News-Gazette today. The goofy
> analysis got a smile out of me at breakfast this morning. The relevant part
> is
>
> "The wealthiest 10 percent of Americans – those making more than $138,000
> each year– earned 11.4 times the roughly $12,000 made by those living near
> or below the poverty line in 2008."
>
> $138,000 is 11.5 times $12,000. They are comparing a typical person (or
> family, if Mort is right) in poverty with the lowest income of the upper
> 10%. It's apples and oranges. The actual spread between the two groups is
> and must be many times the 11.4.
>
> Bob
>
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