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The real reason that I have been delving into Census data was not to torture y’all with quizzes, but to help student journalists learn how to report on income inequality. If you want to know more about the practical steps, check out the post on the NewsNumbers.us site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A small percentage of people at the top garner a large percentage of the income. We can measure it in different ways, but the point is that there’s a very large gap between the richest and the rest of us. That gap has been growing since the late 1970s. <\/p>\n

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Why should we care about this gap in America? Well, here are a few of the consequences:<\/p>\n

    \nCreates political and social unrest
    \nAlienates citizens from one another and from government
    \nSegregates neighborhoods, becomes self-perpetuating
    \nSlows economic growth and may contribute to recession\n<\/ol>\n

    Here’s the last quiz, I promise. The answers to it are at the end of this post, along with the answers for yesterday’s quiz on housing<\/a>. <\/p>\n