America’s income gap disparity continues to expand at breakneck pace. It’s this gap that makes any real chance of economic recovery for the United States of America next to impossible, argues Steven Pearlstein in a recent op-ed piece for the Washington Post. When the GOP is pretending the income distance isn’t really a serious issue, Democrats aren’t exactly burning up Congress with their path to the cure, Pearlstein writes.
’Pledge to America’ from GOP forgets about income gap
To illustrate how wide the income gap has become within the U.S., go back to 1976. Then, a third of revenue went to the upper crustal third of revenue went to the upper crust back then There had been a better layout how much revenue had been going to the top dogs. The upper crust was getting about a 3rd of the income. Fast-forward to a 15-year run leading up to 2007 that featured the top-earning households sopping up well more than 50 percent of pretax dollars each year. Now, “virtually all of the benefits of economic growth have gone to households that, in today’s terms, earn more than $110,000 a year,” states Pearlstein.
Why is there a space at all?
There are numerous possible suspects to blame for income inequality in the United States. Globalization could be one thing to blame. This is because workers, good and money are now outside of the country instead of within. Now it appears like more corporations want educated workers. There’s a huge demand for it. Pearlman also says other “institutional changes” could be the declining unions, industry deregulation or even the rising power of financial markets. But when it comes down to it, Pearlman believes the income gap has been accepted because American society ultimately decided that such revenue inequality is OK.
So long as the proper balance is maintained
America can be struggling to increase or compete globally with an index of inequality that is too high or too low. Numerous families end up with an economical famine where their only choice for survival is a cash advance while Wall Street is feasting each night. Getting into debt is often times the only lifestyle choice that families have. This is especially true right now. There is a lot of debt to prove this point although Pearlstein does not think that families had to get into the debt.
Ultimately, Pearlstein joins the ranks of those who think more govt involvement is the answer. There has to be some kind of change. This is only if changing the distance is essential to people. “People don’t work hard, take risks, and make sacrifices if they think the rewards will all flow to others.”
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Washington Post
washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/05/AR2010100505535.html
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