This post attempts to explain “The “Haves” and “Have Nots”: Why Are There Disparities?” It probes how certain large populations within a single political entity can still display disparate health outcomes. In addition, it describes two health outcomes for which India and China have had different experiences in the last half century
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The wealth gap in America has long been in the making. In the 30 years between 1975 and 2005, U.S. households in the bottom 80 percent income bracket saw their share of national income actually fall. Those in the bottom 40 percent saw a drop in their incomes when adjusted for inflation. Only the top 20 percent of households experienced an increase their share of the total national income; much of that went to households in the highest 5 percent of the income bracket. An America where some have more money than others is nothing new. But in the past generation, the financial gap between the rich and everyone else has grown ever wider