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The U.S. has a relatively small number of rich people and a much larger number of poor and working poor people.
Wealth is a revealing indicator of how extreme the levels of economic and social inequality really are in the United States .
Wealth and income are selectively created (and in many ways directly subsidized) by the state through tax policy and other measures.
The top 1 percent of income earners now control approximately 26 percent of the country's wealth.
“ Poverty for Profit ” is really a model of capitalism gone wrong or is it precisely capitalism and markets and private interests working exactly as designed in the neoliberal regime and gangster capitalism? Some conservatives would be perfectly content for the government to have no role in poverty reduction which means they’d applaud and even encourage the activities of the poverty industry.
The Brookings Institution recently estimated the racial wealth gap between a median white household and a median Black one.
Many low-income Americans don’t have access to mainstream banking, for example, so they rely on check cashers, pawnshops, and other players in what the government euphemistically calls the “alternative financial services industry.
Many dentists and dental chains specialize in these patients (mostly kids) and realized they can make a ton of money on volume, because Medicaid pays by the procedure.
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