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- The growing disparity in wealth between homeowners and those who cannot afford to buy into the residential lottery has become a pressing matter of inequality.
- Stock buybacks have played a very significant role in the growth of income inequality and the declining economic prospects of the North American middle class.
- Stock buybacks have played a very significant role in the growth of income inequality and the declining economic prospects of the North American middle class.
- The trend toward lower taxes has tilted the economy in favour of the well-off and left average people struggling to get by on stagnant wages and diminished prospects.
- The trend toward lower taxes has tilted the economy in favour of the well-off and left average people struggling to get by on stagnant wages and diminished prospects.
- Disposable income inequality peaked in 2004. And the overall relative poverty rate, using a common international definition, peaked in 2015. Between 2004-2015, little progress was made in reducing disposable income inequality. But since 2015, there has been a remarkable reversal in these trends.
- Disposable income inequality peaked in 2004. And the overall relative poverty rate, using a common international definition, peaked in 2015. Between 2004-2015, little progress was made in reducing disposable income inequality. But since 2015, there has been a remarkable reversal in these trends.
- Bottom line: until we innovate more and improve our productivity, we will continue to fall short of the kind of society to which we aspire.
- Bottom line: until we innovate more and improve our productivity, we will continue to fall short of the kind of society to which we aspire.
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