Indeed, American society is the most unequal among advanced economies.
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Here are the 15 most unequal U.S. metros: As for the second most unequal county, that's New York, New York, where the 1 percent earn 113 times as much as the bottom 99 percent.
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Between its regions Britain is the most unequal country in Europe.
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Its income distribution is the 19th-most unequal in the study.
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Today it is one of the most unequal societies on Earth.
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Six of the 13 most unequal metro areas are in Florida.
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Brazil is one of the most unequal countries in the world.
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China is one of the most unequal countries in the world.
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Latin America is the second most unequal region in the world.
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Why do we have the second-most-unequal schools in the country?
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We have one of the most unequal countries in the developed world.
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South Africa is one of the most unequal societies in the world.
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Currently, the U.S. is the most unequal country in the developed world.
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Here's what it looks like in the most unequal place in America.
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We have the second most unequal education system in the entire country.
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The country has one of the most unequal sex ratios in the world.
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It is among the most unequal countries in Latin America, against stiff competition.
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However, the Golden State remains one of the most unequal in the nation.
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Kensington and Chelsea is among the richest and most unequal areas in the country.
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According to Credit Suisse, a bank, Thailand has become the world's most unequal country.
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That's all clearer here in South Africa, the second-most-unequal country on earth.
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Germany is one of the most unequal of the 35 countries in the OECD.
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"New York State itself is the single most unequal state in the country," she said.
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Unemployment topped 25 percent, and the nation remained one of the world's most unequal societies.
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Radicals find support in world's most unequal nation This is the ANC's worst showing since 1994.
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Germany is one of the most unequal countries in the OECD club of mostly rich nations.
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The country remains one of the most unequal in the world, according to the World Bank.
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But in the poorest and most unequal country in the Americas, the unrest is particularly acute.
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Forty years ago, none of the country's 10 largest metros were among the 103 most unequal.
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Banks and airlines were among the most unequal companies for the second year in a row.
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South Africa remains one of the most unequal societies in the world, according to the World Bank.
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In the Middle East — the most unequal region — 29% of earners take home 29% of total income.
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It is also one of the world's most unequal countries in terms of the distribution of wealth.
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Despite the emergence of a black middle class, South Africa is now the most unequal country on earth.
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South Korea had the most unequal land ownership in the region, and resistance by the elites was strongest.
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A recent report by Credit Suisse found that Russia is the most unequal of the world's major economies.
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The country was recently named one of the most unequal countries in the world by the World Bank.
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Population: 1,991Median income: $115,363Median home value: $1,121,400Wilson is right outside of Jackson, the most unequal place in America.
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India is already probably the most unequal large economy in the world, comparable to Brazil and South Africa.
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South Africa has the most unequal school system in the world, says Nic Spaull of the University of Stellenbosch.
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And Fairfield County, where Greenwich and many hedge funds are located, is the most unequal region in the state.
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Depending on how you look at it, it's one of the richest states or one of the most unequal.
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In one of the world's most unequal countries, the water crisis has also unveiled the stark inequalities that exist.
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Russia is the world's most unequal major country, and more than half of its household wealth is stashed offshore.
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A third of Guatemalans are employed in agriculture, but land distribution is among the most unequal in the world.
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Although the average life expectancy in Brazil is 74, we're one of the most unequal countries in the world.
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Although apartheid ended almost 25 years ago, South African society remains one of the most unequal in the world.
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Africa's most advanced economy remains one of the most unequal societies in the world, according to the World Bank.
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It is among the world's most unequal countries today, with the richest 1% holding one third of all household assets.
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South Africa's unemployment rate is currently 265 percent, and the country stands as one of the world's most unequal countries.
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The protests reflect sharp divisions in Chile, one of Latin America's wealthiest nations but also one of its most unequal.
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Last year, The New Yorker published a profile of the capital, Luanda, one of the most unequal cities on earth.
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After a decade of government belt-tightening and austerity, the city is ranked the second-most unequal in the country.
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Today, 25 years after transitioning into a neoliberal democracy, South Africa ranks among the most unequal countries in the world.
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The most unequal metro area in the U.S. happens to be Jackson, which includes part of Wyoming and nearby Idaho.
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But that's not true in every job — and in the most unequal professions, the wage gap can be even bigger.
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"Summer is the most unequal time of the year," says Matthew Boulay of the National Summer Learning Association, an American NGO.
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For more on Equal Pay Day, check out the most unequal jobs in America and the economic devaluation of women's choices.
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Today the country is considered one of the most unequal in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development group of nations.
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Political repression and violent corruption: Honduras, for example, has long been one of Central America's poorest and economically most unequal countries.
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Brazil is consistently rated among the most unequal countries in the world, and that wealth disparity can lead some to desperation.
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"We are the most unequal state in the nation in terms of income," said Lauren Hitt, a spokeswoman for Ms. Nixon.
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Inside Angola, one of the world's most unequal societies, half of the working population lives on less than $3.10 a day.
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Back in 210, Binghamton's wage inequality made the region among the most unequal in the country, according to the Fed analysis.
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California is the fourth most unequal state in the union with so many homeless who face diseases like typhus and hepatitis.
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Pawan Khera, a Congress spokesman, said this was "turning out to be the most unequal election," but did not provide specifics.
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How did the United States go from being the most egalitarian country in the West to being one of the most unequal?
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House prices in Hong Kong are among the highest in the world, but it's also one of the world's most unequal cities.
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"New York has the second most unequal education system, when it comes to funding, in the entire nation," Nixon said early on.
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An oil boom made Angola one of Africa's richest countries per capita but it is also one of the world's most unequal.
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Inequality Latin America is still the most unequal region in the world; a huge gap continues to separate the wealthy and the poor.
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It's about a four-hour drive from the resort town of Jackson, which one report called the most unequal place in the US.
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"This is one of the most unequal societies ... something that does not match the capacity of the economy," said the father of three.
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Nearly 15 percent of Thailand's citizens live in Bangkok, and many cling to the fringes of one of the world's most unequal societies.
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Here are the most unequal, with the weekly wage data converted into a rough annual salary (assuming you work 52 weeks per year):
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New York itself is the most unequal state, and it's not just because we have Wall Street and so many wealthy people here.
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Meanwhile, among Asian-Americans—whose incomes are now the most unequal among racial groups—rising inequality is not necessarily evidence of improved upward mobility.
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But there is at least an outside chance that the most important rich country—and one of the most unequal—will answer his call.
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Last fall, Miami was ranked by Bloomberg as the most unequal city in America, with housing being a main driver of its wealth disparity.
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The cost of this top-heavy income-surge is that China has become the second-most unequal country in the G20 after South Africa.
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About 80 percent of land in Colombia is owned by just 14 percent of the population, among the most unequal distributions in the world.
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While still one of the most unequal countries in the world, the gap between richest and poorest has shrunk slightly over Xi's first term.
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The second most unequal metro is Naples-Immokalee-Marco Island, FL, where the 1 percent earn 90.1 times as much as the 99 percent.
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By some accounts, Thailand is the most unequal society on earth, and its wealth gap has only widened during five years of junta rule.
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The International Labour Organization has predicted unemployment will creep up to 8.4 percent this year across the region, which ranks as the world's most unequal.
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So while Jackson is technically the most unequal place in America, as far as I could tell, it's hardly a typical example of stark inequality.
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Guatemala is one of Latin America's poorest and most unequal nations, with poverty rising since 2000 despite strong economic growth, according to the World Bank.
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And Lebanon's top 1 percent earn about 25 percent of the gross domestic product, making it one of the most unequal economies in the world.
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But South Africa remains one of the world's most unequal societies, riven by glaring income disparities, an official jobless rate of 26.5 percent, and widespread poverty.
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Russia is the most unequal major economy in the world, with almost two-thirds of its wealth controlled by millionaires, a wealth research company has said.
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And although Germany has the most unequal distribution of wealth in the euro zone, the tax system relies heavily on regressive indirect taxes such as VAT.
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Florida was the second most unequal, with the richest making an average of $1.5 million, or 40 times, the rest of the Sunshine State at $39,094.
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The most unequal states were New York, Connecticut, and Wyoming, where the top 1% earned average incomes more than 40 times those of the bottom 99%.
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A recent World Bank survey showed that the country is the most unequal on earth, with South Africa's richest households almost 10 times wealthier than poor households.
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The person in this seat doesn't just lead for the delegation or the district, which needs leadership because it's the most diverse and it's the most unequal.
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In the resort town of Jackson, Wyoming, the most unequal metro area in America, the richest 993% make 132 times more, on average, than the bottom 99%.
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South Africa is the most unequal country in the world in terms of income, and Cape Town has the highest murder and robbery rates in the country.
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Brazil is one of the most unequal countries in the world and there are only a handful of public courses in a nation the size of Western Europe.
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The Jackson metropolitan area, which includes part of Idaho, is the most unequal place in the US, according to a 2018 report published by the Economic Policy Institute.
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Nearly 25 years after the end of apartheid, South Africa remains one of the most unequal societies in the world, with land ownership an enduring focal point for grievances.
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Under this governor, New York is the single most unequal state in the country, and the gap between our richest and poorest schools is wider than it's ever been.
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However, Chile remains the most unequal country in the largely-developed Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), with an income gap 65% wider than the OECD average.
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Alston said that a tax overhaul that passed the Republican-controlled U.S. Congress in December will ensure the United States remains the most unequal society in the developed world.
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All of this, she says, has made New York "the single most unequal state in the country," where the top 23.6% make 3.6 times more than the bottom 99%.
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But despite improvements by some governments, Latin America remains the most unequal region in the world, with 10 percent of the population holding roughly 71 percent of the wealth.
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America at the time, Dr. Ansolabehere and James M. Snyder Jr. wrote in their book "The End of Inequality," had some of the most unequal representation in the world.
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"We are now the most unequal state in the entire country, with both incredible wealth and extreme poverty," she said in a video posted on Twitter announcing her candidacy.
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The solstice is the opposite: On those days, the sun appears at its furthest point from the equator, and the lengths of day and night are the most unequal.
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Just two years after the crash, the nation's Gini coefficient, the standard measure of wealth distribution, was at 22016, making the US among the most unequal of modern democracies.
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In a city where the typical home is now worth more than $1m, the debate highlights growing tensions between haves and have-nots in one of America's most unequal cities.
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The Southeast Asian nation with a population of around 70 million was one of the world's most unequal economies, according to a report last year from Swiss bank Credit Suisse.
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South Africa's Gini coefficient, a measure of income inequality by the World Bank, is 0.63, one of the most unequal societies in the world on a scale between 0-1.
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New York is one of the country's most unequal and expensive cities, where the poor struggle to find affordable housing and the money and time to take care of themselves.
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Much of that went to the government, which has tried to offset the nation's stark inequality — it is one of the world's most unequal countries — with large-scale social spending.
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And the most unequal county was Teton County, Wyoming, which ispart of the Jackson, WY-ID, metro area, where the top 1% makes 1.0 times more than the bottom 99%.
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One commits the government to rural development and land reform—something Colombia, one of the world's most unequal countries, needs anyway, as Sergio Jaramillo, one of the government's negotiators, points out.
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On a recent July weekend, I drove down to spend a few days in Jackson and get a feel for what it's like in the most unequal place in the country.
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Even though I spent three days in the most unequal place in America, I have to say that spending time in Jackson certainly doesn't leave you feeling like that's the case.
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Guatemala has long been one of the Western Hemisphere's most unequal societies, and for generations the American dream has lured hundreds of thousands of Guatemalans seeking to escape poverty and insecurity.
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" On income inequality: "New York state itself is the single most unequal state in the country ... The top 1 percent of New Yorkers earn 45 times what the other 99 percent combined.
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It's no coincidence that some of the most unequal and expensive cities in the country, like San Francisco, New York City, and Washington, D.C., also have the largest populations of homeless people.
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A report from Peking University in January found China to be one of the most unequal societies in the world with the richest 1 percent holding a third of the country's wealth.
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For up-and-comers like Johannesburg — which jumped three levels on the global city ladder since 2500 — the result has been that it is now the most unequal city in the world.
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Though she didn't mention the governor by name in her first campaign ad, she called out the state's "leaders for failing us," saying New York was the most "unequal state" in the country.
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In one of the most unequal countries in the world, a university education can be an important impetus for class mobility, with a degree often helping to lift future generations out of poverty.
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Unsurprisingly, the Fed finds that the most unequal places in the country are large urban areas, while the least unequal places are concentrated in the Rust Belt, which includes Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
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"Income inequality, measured by Gini, is strongly correlated with homicide over time and space, and Latin America has 15 of the 20 most unequal countries, measured by Gini inequality, on the planet," Muggah said.
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Below, CNBC Make It rounded up America's 12 most unequal metro areas, where the average income of the top 1 percent is at least 40 times greater than that of the bottom 99 percent.
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A survey by Credit Suisse found that Thailand is the most unequal society on earth, beating out Russia and India, with 1 percent of the population controlling more than 65 percent of the wealth.
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The legacy of apartheid-era city planning is one reason why, 25 years after South Africa's first democratic elections, the country is still considered the most unequal in the world, according to the World Bank.
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Jackson is the "most unequal location in the entire country, " thanks in part to extremely wealthy residents like former Vice President Dick Cheney and Walmart heiress Christy Walton, one of the richest billionaires of 2018.
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Although an oil boom has made Angola one of Africa's richest countries per capita, it is also one of the world's most unequal, with the vast majority of the population sharing little of its wealth.
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As compared to the The report found that the most unequal metro area in America is the resort town of Jackson, Wyoming, where the average income of the top 1% is more than $16.1 million, and the average income of the bottom 99% is Read more: A 3-day trip to Jackson Hole during what I thought would be the low season ended up being a valuable lesson in writing off ski towns as winter-only destinationsHere are the most unequal places in America.
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The unemployment rate is currently 27 percent, and it's one of the world's most unequal countries: White South Africans, who make up less than a tenth of the population, still control most of the country's wealth.
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Latin America also needs to combat high rates of road accidents, hydro-meteorological problems like water shortages, and unhealthy lifestyles, whose effects such as obesity are proving expensive to tackle in the world's most unequal region.
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The most unequal country in the world, South Africa is already home to barricaded islands of wealth no different from his own estate, Roodt notes; a state-proof economic system that connects those islands is inevitable.
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Today just over one percent of Colombia's landowners hold more than half of the country's agricultural land, making land distribution in Colombia among the most unequal in the world, according to the United Nations Development Programme.
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In a widely cited survey, China's Southwestern University of Finance and Economics concluded that the Gini had soared to 22012 by 2010, in the same league as the world's most unequal countries, such as South Africa.
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Hong Kong is one of the most unequal cities in the world; housing prices and living costs rise each year, while youth employment rates have been largely stagnant and many young graduates struggle to find work.
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Despite the abuses, Nicaragua's traditional elite (the country is one of the poorest and most unequal in the hemisphere) mostly acquiesced to the dictatorship because it promised stability and implemented economic policies favorable to their interests.
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The government's findings put the city behind New York as the world's second-most unequal city in terms of income, according to the household income distribution report released on Friday by the Census and Statistics Department.
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Read more: I spent 3 days in Jackson, Wyoming — the most unequal place in America, where the 1% makes more than $16 million a yearOn a recent trip to Jackson Hole, I visited two very different destinations.
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Despite 25 years of equal rights under the law, a recent World Bank survey showed that the country is the most unequal in the world, with South Africa's richest households almost 10 times wealthier than poor households.
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Despite a brightening economic picture, many countries need to do more to reduce the huge gap between rich and poor in the world's most unequal region while ramping up spending on critical infrastructure, health and education, experts said.
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The standoff began when Ms. Yingluck's brother, Mr. Thaksin, a one-time telecom billionaire, upended the political establishment when he won elections in 2001 by vowing to reduce income disparity in one of the world's most unequal societies.
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While poverty has declined since the end of apartheid, inequality has risen in a society that was already one of the world's most unequal, according to a recent report by the World Bank and the South African government.
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But it is also one of the most unequal countries in the world, with a privileged few having raked in large profits from high interest rates that enriched the already wealthy as the country sunk deeper into debt.
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Meanwhile, a UN report from 35 found that the richest 803 percent of the population earns 280 percent of the nation's wealth, making Chile the most unequal member of the OECD (an intergovernmental economic organization of largely developed nations).
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READ MORE: Terrifying, first-person photos show the claustrophobic conditions inside Hong Kong's 'coffin cubicles' The survey illustrates the stark contrast between the living conditions of rich and poor in Hong Kong, one of the world's most unequal cities.
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South Africa is considered one of the most unequal countries in the world, according to the World Bank, and the impact of years of apartheid spatial planning that set to physically divide the country's different races lingers on today.
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That this inequality now so clearly correlates with city size — the largest metros are the most unequal — also shows how changes in the economy are both rewarding and rattling what we have come to think of as 'superstar cities.
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On the grassy esplanade outside Congress, a 6-foot-high (2-metre) security barrier ran for more than 1 km to separate rival demonstrations, a symbol of the political rift that has emerged in one of the world's most unequal societies.
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The huge gaps between the wealth of the top 5% and bottom 20% make California the second most unequal state after New York, with Texas in tenth place, according to the Centre for Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), a think-tank.
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BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Land distribution in Latin America is the most unequal in the world where only one percent of the farms and estates control more than half of the region's productive land, aid group Oxfam said on Wednesday.
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On the grassy esplanade outside Congress, a 6.5-foot-high (2-metre) security barrier ran for more than 1 km separating rival demonstrations, a symbol of the political rift that has emerged in one of the world's most unequal societies.
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WATCH: "While our president is a racist, misogynistic, truly empathy-bankrupt man," the conditions that made MA-07 one of most unequal in America was cemented in policy long before Trump, Ayanna Pressley says in primary election victory speech. pic.twitter.
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New York was the most unequal state in the nation, when measured by average income, with the top 2100 percent averaging about $23 million in annual earnings, about 22 times the average income of $21,21 for the other 99 percent.
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Unemployment benefits were set to expire for more than 2 million people in the first half of this year, according to data obtained by Reuters, in a threat to years of progress against poverty in one of world's most unequal countries.
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BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Giving women access to land in Guatemala is key to forging lasting peace and tackling inequality, Nobel peace laureate Rigoberta Menchu said on Friday, in a country where land distribution is one of the most unequal in the world.
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Ms. Lacayo, whose parents emigrated from Nicaragua in 2000, said she had seen opportunities shrink for her generation, especially in Miami, a city of expensive housing and low-paying service jobs that consistently ranks as one of the most unequal in the country.
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As in all of South Africa, one of the world's most unequal societies, racial tensions had simmered just below the surface in Coligny, where farms and other businesses are still largely owned by whites and other individuals who are not black South Africans.
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Supporters counter that a minimum wage is the only way to reduce poverty in one of the world's most unequal societies, helping to dismantle an apartheid-era system designed to provide cheap black labor for an economy dominated by the white minority.
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Pinera said in a national address broadcast from the presidential palace in Santiago that he had listened "with humility" to "the voice of my compatriots" and to discontent over the cost of living in one of Latin America's wealthiest and most unequal nations.
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Calls for black empowerment resonate because, although Namibia is deemed a middle-income country with bountiful reserves of minerals (in particular diamonds and uranium), a tiny population (2.3m) and a prosperous if small black middle class, it is also one of the world's most unequal.
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If we don't find a solution on the global level, like creating a global safety net to protect humans against the shocks of AI, and enabling them to use the opportunities of AI, then we will create the most unequal economic situation that ever existed.
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On the grassy esplanade outside Congress, a 6-foot-high (2-meter) security barrier ran for more than half a mile (1 km) to separate rival demonstrations, a symbol of the political rift that has emerged in one of the world's most unequal societies.
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But in one of the world's most unequal cities, where apartheid's legacy separates mostly rich and white suburbs from largely poor and black shantytowns, the efforts to avoid Day Zero have involved cajoling a divided society into thinking of water as a common problem.
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"The result is that the UK is one of the most unequal countries in the developed world and there is, rightly, great concern about excessive rewards at the top end of the pay scale compared to the amounts most people take home," it said.
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In regions like the parched Sertão of the northeast with scant prospects for private investment, there are growing fears that the cuts could stoke unemployment and worsen the gap between rich and poor in what is already one of the world's most unequal countries.
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"While our president is a racist, misogynistic, truly empathy-bankrupt man, the conditions which have made [the 7th District] one of most unequal in America was cemented through policy long before he ever descended the escalator in Trump Tower," the Boston City councilor said.
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Cody, which is known as the Rodeo Capital of the World, is 97 miles from Yellowstone National Park and nearly 300 miles from Jackson Hole, the most unequal place in the US. The median home value in Cody is $214,500; the median household income is $56,356.
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"Inequality generally has deteriorated everywhere, but it is still the case that the U.S. is by far the most unequal country in the world in terms of income distribution and wealth distribution," Deutsche Bank Securities chief economist Torsten Slok said in a podcast interview from Davos.
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WINDHOEK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Promising to give away all her wealth - estimated at $3 million - to charity when she dies, Monica Geingos is on a mission to change the image of African first ladies and tackle sexism and inequality in Namibia, the world's second most unequal country.
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The strategy, released as part of Santiago's participation in the 100 Resilient Cities initiative, brings together programs already underway in the city, one of the most unequal in Latin America due to wide gaps between rich and poor in housing, education and services, as well as gender inequality.
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Chile, they point out, long seen as a haven of stability in Latin America, yet so turbulent now it has had to cancel two international summits due to be held in Santiago, is on some measures the most unequal country in the OECD, a club of mostly rich countries.
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Not just the millions of economically vulnerable voters who've been sold out too many times by megadonor-fueled lawmakers, but also musicians and artists who might otherwise choose to stay out of politics: especially in places like Worcester that are ignored by Democratic Party bigwigs who spend most of their time in Boston, one of the most unequal cities in America.
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Over the last few months, moreover, a series of scandals involving Chinese nationals — including tax evasion, money-laundering and poaching endangered wildlife — has soured locals on a foreign presence that can seem largely extractive: pulling uranium, timber, rhino horns and profits out the country without benefiting a population that, because of apartheid's legacy, ranks among the most unequal economically in the world.
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Jackson may seem an unusual place to hold so much wealth, but it is home to the luxurious Jackson Hole ski resort and includes Teton County, which is by far the most unequal county in the U.S. The average annual income of the wealthiest 1 percent of the residents of Teton — a group that includes Dick Cheney and Wal-Mart heiress Christy Walton — is more than $22 million.
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