Moreover, they misidentify that cause: it is not poverty as such, but inequality.
此外，决策者们没有正确认识这一原因：并不是上述那样的贫穷，而是不平等。
Rising real incomes and low interest rates reliably lead to credit booms, they reckon, but inequality does not.
他们估计，实际收入的上升和较低的利率导致了信贷的繁荣，收入不平等并非诱因。
Income inequality usually falls during a recession, but it has not shrunk in this one.
在经济衰退期间，收入差距通常会缩小，但这次却没有。
The face of income inequality, for all but a very few of us, is the one we each see in the mirror.
除了极少数人，我们大多数人都能在社会这面镜子中看到收入不平等的面孔。
If some but not all numbers are zero, we have strict inequality.
如果并不是所有的数字都是零，我们有严格的不平等。
But the recession is already undoing some of the rise in inequality as the capital gains, bonuses and Wall Street profits that fuelled much of the gains in top incomes turn to dust.
资本收益、红利和华尔街盈利是收入最高人群的利润来源，但是由于经济衰退，这些利润消失殆尽，渐渐在消除部分不平等的增长。
The beautiful architecture and vibrant night life are one face of the city, but cities also have problems of inequality, crowding and poverty.
雄伟的建筑和充满活力的夜生活固然是城市的一面，但城市中也同样存在不平等、拥挤和贫困的问题。
Wage inequality in Europe and Japan has also increased, but not by as much.
工资不平等在欧洲和日本也有所上升，但并没有美国这么显著。
So you can argue that income inequality is a problem and that education is a good thing. But the two do not appear to be correlated.
所以你可以说，收入不平等是个问题，教育是个好东西，但这两者没表现出什么相关性。
But public anger derives from the same source: extreme and seemingly insurmountable inequality.
但是公众的愤怒源自相同的来源：极端和看似不可逾越的不平等。
So wealth inequality is real, but where’s the outrage?
财富不平等是事实，那么愤怒在哪儿呢？
But to limit technology to reduce inequality would be a cure worse than the disease.
但是，通过限制技术来减少不平等却可能是个比问题还糟糕的解决之道。
But one striking piece of inequality has been conveniently overlooked: lifespan.
但有一件显而易见不平等的事却被视而不见，那就是寿命。
But women make up 91% of cosmetic surgery patients, according to statistics gathered by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, possibly injecting an element of gender inequality into the debate.
然而，据美国整形外科医生协会掌握的统计数据，整容手术者91%是妇女，这多少可能将性别不平等带进讨论中。
He happens to slice inequality between generations - but he is describing the great widening class divide we are bequeathing to the next generation.
他碰巧撕裂了两代人之间的不平等。但是他正在描写一个已经很大的而且还在不断加剧的我们将留给下一代的阶级分化。
But extensive study by economists has found little correlation, in either direction, between inequality and economic growth rates across countries.
但是经济学家的大量研究已经发现，各国的不平等程度和经济增长率之间没有任何关联性，不论是正向还是反向。
But within most countries inequality, as measured by the Gini coefficient, has increased in recent decades (see chart 2).
但是根据基尼系数来衡量，大多数国家的贫富差距在最近几十年内都有所增加(如图2)。
Throughout the Golden Age, therefore, incomes grew but income inequality declined or, at worst, stayed unchanged.
因此，贯穿黄金年代始终的是，收入在增长，但收入的差距在缩小，或最不济，也只是保持不变。
But work by two academics, Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez, shows that inequality has been just as marked in pre-tax as in post-tax incomes.
但是Thomas Piketty和EmmanuelSaez两位学者的研究表明，税后收入的差距和税前一样显著。
Earnings inequality of full time workers did rise rapidly in the United States during the 1980s, and more slowly but significantly during the 1990s.
二十世纪八十年代的美国，全职工人收入的不平等确实增长很快。到了九十年代，增长速度虽然慢了但更加显著。
But it also found general, and increasing, disquiet about inequality and fat-cattery.
但是这也促使发现了这一问题的普遍性和上升性，并且引发了不平等的现象和暴发户的举止的忧虑。
People know we're living in a time of growing income inequality, Krugman told me, but "the ordinary person is not really aware of how big it is."
Krugman告诉我，人们知道大家生活在一个收入不平等不断加剧的年代，然而“普通人并不知道它究竟有多严重”。
But in a highly regulated economy such as Japan, which does not have free competition and lacks equality of opportunity, inequality can also be hard to escape.
但在日本这样一个难言拥有自由竞争、且缺乏机会公平的、受到高度规制的经济体中，不公平也将在所难免。
But even if poverty has continued to fall despite rising inequality, it may not have dropped as fast as it might have if economic gains had been more equally distributed.
但是即便在不平等日益扩大的同时贫困持续得以下降，它可能不如在更加公平地分配经济收益的情况下降低得那么快。
True, the study found that inequality and poverty were falling in Britain, but its data ran only until 2005.
这项调查固然反映出英国的不平等和贫困在下降，但我们不要忘了该项调查的数据仅到2005年为止。
It is often said that Americans care about opportunity and not inequality, but this is very misleading.
我们一直说美国人对机会关注，对不平等不在乎，这很有误导性。
But it has also led to rising inequality in the rich countries, and they may now well respond by raising protectionist barriers.
但它也导致了富裕国家的不平衡状况加剧，而富裕国家很有可能以增加保护主义壁垒来回应。
But its critics argue that it fails to deal with the key causes of inequality-low-quality teaching, crumbling buildings and widespread truancy in state schools.
但是其批评者认为此项法律并不能解决引起不平等的主要原因——教学质量差，建筑物摇摇欲坠，国立学校逃课现象普遍。
But its critics argue that it fails to deal with the key causes of inequality-low-quality teaching, crumbling buildings and widespread truancy in state schools.
但是其批评者认为此项法律并不能解决引起不平等的主要原因——教学质量差，建筑物摇摇欲坠，国立学校逃课现象普遍。
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