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| Media Myth Debunked: Income Inequality Is Actually Plummeting; A conversation for U.S. citizens only. | |
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| Jim Miller | Feb 21 2012, 08:56 AM Post #1 |
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Edited by Jim Miller, Feb 21 2012, 08:58 AM.
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| Chris | Feb 21 2012, 09:11 AM Post #2 |
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Interesting. My pointing to economic mobility was to counter only a liberal myth.
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| ImaHeadaU | Feb 21 2012, 09:36 AM Post #3 |
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U.S. CENSUS BUREAU |
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| Chris | Feb 21 2012, 09:43 AM Post #4 |
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That's interesting but the following, also from your link, indicates the fuller context and import of the study, which doesn't seem related to the topic. "While this paper estimated a regression model describing the relationship between the Gini coefficient of income inequality and tract characteristics, it is not a causal model....to the extent that individuals and households prefer one type of community to another, they can undertake to find an area with the ranges of household income that they would choose to increase their neighborhood satisfaction." |
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| tomdrobin | Feb 21 2012, 01:29 PM Post #5 |
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How stupid do you think we are. CEO pay isn't the only factor in income inequality. So, CEO pay has decreased since 2000. You can't use that to come to the conclusions you are. Unless your stupid, trying to decieve or feeding a loonie his daily does of bias confirmation.
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| Banandangees | Feb 21 2012, 07:02 PM Post #6 |
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It appears that the AFL-CIO study is measuring CEO pay to worker income, while the Gini study appears to be measuring "Household" income. The AFL-CIO study is measuring "worker" to "worker" inequality. The Gini study isn't in that not all households in America have a member who is working. Measuring two different population groups aren't they? Edited by Banandangees, Feb 21 2012, 07:04 PM.
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| Jim Miller | Feb 21 2012, 07:20 PM Post #7 |
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You are laying yourself wide open with that one, Tom. Someone may just tell you. |
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| Chris | Feb 21 2012, 07:41 PM Post #8 |
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But CEO pay has been the talking point. |
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| tomdrobin | Feb 22 2012, 07:17 AM Post #9 |
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CEO pay is only a small part of the income inequality issue. |
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| ImaHeadaU | Feb 22 2012, 07:25 AM Post #10 |
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While the paper also delves into the U.S. Government's numbers on income inequality on the state and further down to the community level, the section that I quoted dealt with the national statistics. I thought it might be helpful to use the government's numbers rather than those from from the small sample quoted in the opening post. |
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