Issues: Economy
The economy set us up for endangerment.
The colorful world map to the right shows the countries in a spectrum from green to red. Green represents the least disparity between the highest incomes and the lowest incomes, red indicating the countries with greatest disparity.
"The United States is one of the richest countries in the world (2nd behind Kuwait).
In the United States at the end of 2001, 10% of the population owned 71% of the wealth, and the top 1% controlled 38%.
On the other hand, the bottom 40% owned less than 1% of the nation's wealth." Moriconi blog
The red spike chart shows the percentages of money held by the percentages of people in the United States in 2001. Since then the ratio has diverged even more, as reported by the New York Times.
