Also, not all black homeowners increase the racial wealth gap when they buy homes.
Although, the wealth gap was extremely large for single white women as well.
By contrast, in 1984, the wealth gap between seniors and the young was just ten to one.
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And in the second film, The One Percent, they see that we have this growing wealth gap.
Can the wealth gap be narrowed without slowing wealth creation in the U.S. and other developed economies?
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As a result, the wealth gap between old and young American households has quadrupled in the past 25 years.
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Less controversially, funding for Cohesion funds - money used to help newer EU members bridge the wealth gap - have emerged largely unscathed.
The wealth gap between younger and older Americans has stretched to the widest on record, made worse by unemployment levels not seen since before World War II.
It concerns the growing wealth gap there in Sweden, which I think some people believe is one of the motive forces behind the violence of the last week.
As Obama talks about decreasing the wealth gap between Americans, Romney needs to make the case for why his pro-growth economic policies will increase wealth for all Americans.
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Clearly, attitudes about the wealth gap needs wide public discussion.
Yet, the wealth gap among rural households is also widening.
Amid all the talk of addressing the wealth gap, the party's plenum reiterated a commitment to rapid growth by restating a goal of raising China's GDP to double its 2000 level by 2010.
The State Council also pointed to a big wealth gap between the urban and rural regions and vowed to provide more fiscal support for the less developed central and western regions of the country.
It is a horrific statistic that hints at - among many factors - the widening wealth gap in a country where the poor are so often obliged to squeeze into speeding and over-crowded minibuses for long commutes.
According to the University, the total income of the top 20 percent of the rural households was 10.19 times higher than the bottom 20 percent and that the wealth gap in west China was bigger than in the east of the country.
But to me it also speaks to South Africa's notorious wealth gap, and to a culture where lavishly paid senior officials - be they politicians, police bureaucrats or defence attorneys - appear to live in a very different world from the underfunded, underequipped foot soldiers struggling to get a grip on this country's enduring crime problem.
And yet, Mr Maponya is worried about South Africa - about the angry crowds of jobless youths, the failing schools, the culture of entitlement, the cronyism in government, the widening wealth gap, the lack of urgency in tackling entrenched unemployment, and the danger that populist demagogues offering easy answers and old cliches will bring things to boiling point.
That history helps explain the wealth and income gap between blacks and whites, and the concentrated pockets of poverty that persist in so many of today's urban and rural communities.
Even at that age I could sense the gap in wealth and living standards compared to the relative comfort of growing up in a single parent family in Croydon.
If anything, the visible presence of such wealth points to a widening gap between those that have and the rest.
When it comes to voluntarily spreading their own wealth around, a distinct "charity gap" opens up between Americans who are for and against government income leveling.
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So as income inequality grew, the government propped up spending by promoting easy credit for less wealthy Americans, and much of the profit from that easy credit fed the wealth of the richest, widening the gap between rich and poor yet further.
This gap gets even wider when the household wealth of these children is considered.
Until there is substantial redistribution of wealth from rich to poor school-districts, the gap will only grow wider.
Only when the private sector steps in the fill the gap that has to be left as government spending is pulled back will genuine wealth creation start to emerge.
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