1. Also expected to feed into widening current account deficits is a widening net income deficit -- the amount Australia pays to service its debt. 2. And no politician today, except Jackson, seems very concerned about it, or the widening income inequality that economists have been tracking for decades. 3. A further cause for alarm is the widening income gap between rich and poor. 4. A more tortuous link between higher securities prices and widening income inequality involves the fact that human skills are worth more than ever. 5. A widening income gap could undermine the growing overall prosperity in the region. 6. But almost no one denies Framingham is being torn by a widening income gap, a growing and stark division between the haves and have-nots. 7. He worries, too, about both the widening income gap and the information gap in which the computer illiterate are increasingly left behind. 8. Hence the ever widening income disparity between rich and poor, and between Bangkok and the countryside, in the previous decade of rapid economic growth. 9. The widening income gap has increased the portion of the national earnings pie gobbled up by the wealthiest families. 10. The widening income gap between rich and poor Americans is hurting more than the poorest of the poor, according to two studies. |