Two articles about the rich, mainly white elderly and the poor, very diverse young appeared in the New York TImes today. Continue reading
Category Archives: Demographics
Opportunities, challenges, problems raised by changing demographics world-wide.
Income inequality
The source may be liberal but the graphs here are just that – graphs. They tell a depressing story about the rise of income inequality in this country. What they do not tell us is either the cause or the solution. As Ross Douthat points out in today’s New York Times increasing the tax rate on millionaires does not (by itself) solve the problem. Continue reading
