{"id":2869,"date":"2017-08-09T12:44:22","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T04:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/?p=2869"},"modified":"2017-08-09T12:44:22","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T04:44:22","slug":"our-broken-economy-in-one-simple-chart-nyt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/?p=2869","title":{"rendered":"Our Broken Economy, in One Simple Chart  NYT"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>By\u00a0<a title=\"More Articles by DAVID LEONHARDT\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/david-leonhardt\">DAVID LEONHARDT<\/a>\u00a0AUG. 7, 2017<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2017\/08\/07\/opinion\/leonhardt-income-inequality.html?_r=1<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A well-known team of inequality researchers \u2014 Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman \u2014 has been getting some\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2017\/7\/12\/15942870\/class-warfare-upscale-suburbs\">attention<\/a>\u00a0recently for a chart it produced. It shows the change in income between 1980 and 2014 for every point on the distribution, and it neatly summarizes the recent soaring of inequality.The line on the chart (which we have recreated as the red line above) resembles a classic hockey-stick graph. It\u2019s mostly flat and close to zero, before spiking upward at the end. That spike shows that the very affluent, and only the very affluent, have received significant raises in recent decades.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0DAVID LEONHARDT\u00a0AUG. 7, 2017 https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2017\/08\/07\/opinion\/leonhardt-income-inequality.html?_r=1 A well-known team of inequality researchers \u2014 Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman \u2014 has been getting some\u00a0attention\u00a0recently for a chart it produced. It shows the change in income between 1980 and 2014 for every point on the distribution, and it neatly summarizes the recent soaring of inequality.The line [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2869"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2871,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869\/revisions\/2871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}