Doug Henwood Talks

On Oct 22, 2006, at 8:16 AM, Andy F wrote:

Without getting into how they get and crunch the data this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_index

suggests that it’s less than in the States, on the high end of Europe, on par with Canada.

These look to be cobbled together from inconsistent sources. The
Luxembourg Income Study is the best source of internationally comparable data.
Sweden is at the low end of inequality, the U.S. toward the high end,
exceeded by Russia & Mexico.

Doug

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