Quixotic Pedagogue

Which America Do You Live In?

Zerohedge.com has compiled 21 statistics about poverty and wealth in the United States. Among them:

  1. The lowest earning 23,303,064 Americans combined make 36 percent less than the highest earning 2,915 Americans do.
  2. 40 percent of all American workers (39.6 percent to be precise) make less than $20,000 a year.
  3. According to the Pew Research Center, the top 7 percent of all U.S. households own 63 percent of all the wealth in the country.

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