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Who Will Stand Up to the Superrich? - NYTimes.comQuicklink Submitted By Susan Lee Schwartz No comments
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| The issue is whether the country can afford the damage being done by the ever-growing income inequality between the wealthiest Americans and everyone else. The top 1 percent of American earners took in 23.5 percent of the nation's pretax income in 2007 -- up from less than 9 percent in 1976. During the boom years of 2002 to 2007, that top 1 percent's pretax income increased an extraordinary 10 percent every year. |
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I began teaching in 1963,; Ba and BS in Education -Brooklyn College. I have the equivalent of 2 additional Master's, mainly in Literacy Studies and Graphic Design. I was the only seventh grade teacher of English from 1990 -1999 at East Side (more...)
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