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Finally, Some Good News About Income Inequality
The financial crisis wasn’t all that kind to the 1%.
The 99% may now have reason to be marginally less unhappy.
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Americans spent much energy in the years after the financial crisis being understandably angry about inequality. Fury over globalization’s winners and losers fueled both Occupy Wall Street and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. And all along, the problem may have been fixing itself.