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1) Note that in "perfect equality" the quintiles lose their rankings and there is no top quintile or bottom quintile. There is no need for a quintile at all.
Posted by Edward D.]]> Sun, 13 Feb 2011 19:33:20 -0500 Indy Week
Ever hear of Pareto Analysis or the 80/20 rule.

80% of the results are related to 20% of the causes.

This US model fits almost exact.

Of course, that is logic talking and not emotions.
Posted by ammcat]]> Sun, 13 Feb 2011 16:05:14 -0500 Indy Week Posted by Worrywort]]> Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:11:00 -0500 Indy Week Posted by Denise Prickett, INDY Editorial Web Director]]> Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:44:43 -0500 Indy Week
You are the exact reason why we can't have a conversation about income inequality in this country. Just bringing it up causes poeple to blow a gasket.
Posted by CPA1]]> Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:15:31 -0500 Indy Week
He figured out that his secretary pays a higher percentage of her salary in taxes than he does. He doesn't consider that fair and thinks that he should have to pay more.
Posted by CPA1]]> Fri, 11 Feb 2011 12:41:42 -0500 Indy Week Posted by vigilarus]]> Fri, 11 Feb 2011 02:40:57 -0500 Indy Week
The ingenious blind study showed that Republicans when given only FACTS and not shackled by the chains of partisan slogans are much more like Democrats than they actually know.

Someone with a three digit IQ would have picked up on this.
Posted by MODI]]> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:19:32 -0500 Indy Week Posted by gannamede]]> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 13:28:06 -0500 Indy Week Posted by gannamede]]> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 12:50:14 -0500 Indy Week Posted by MODI]]> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 08:29:18 -0500 Indy Week
Combine this with the idea that inequality is the mother of all evil - as claimed by the authors Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett in their book "The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better" - and the conclusion is obvious: America, or more precisely the majority of American people, is in trouble.
Posted by Stefan Hansen]]> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 08:24:00 -0500 Indy Week