For Richer or Poorer
How Do I Join?
LUCKY SEVEN: I see where 7 percent of American families got vastly richer as the Great Recession tailed off, while the remaining 93 percent of us got shafted.
The Upper Seven’s net worth leaped by 28 percent while the rest of us dropped by 4 percent. What I want to know is how to join the Upper Seven before the Lower 93 percent of families are dead broke.
Is it a club you’re born into? Actually, income inequality has been growing for 30 years or so, the have-not-so-much getting an ever-smaller piece of the pie. But the recession really shocked a lot of economists.
