5 Countries With Growing Income Inequality

In these countries, the gap between the rich and the middle-class has increased in the last 20 years

By U.S. News Staff

October 31, 2008 RSS Feed Print
  1. Canada
  2. Finland
  3. Germany
  4. Italy
  5. United States

Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

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I was wondering about the Spanish America war and the telephone taxs that is still being collected for today ... Is this a thing of the past go out of use for the modern today citizens ./ Could it be stop and maybe a repay for some of it charges, Back to the Public. Jusy one of the programs that I see no benfits from . Sir Steven F. MooreI

Steven F. Moore of KS 3:20PM December 03, 2008

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