{"id":6114,"date":"2011-07-05T19:51:59","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T18:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=6114"},"modified":"2011-07-05T19:52:28","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T18:52:28","slug":"income-inequality-grows-in-uk-and-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=6114","title":{"rendered":"Income inequality grows in UK and USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>UK income inequality increased by 32% between 1960 and 2005. During  the same period, it increased by 23% in the USA, and in Sweden decreased  by 12%.<\/li>\n<li>In the 1960s Sweden and the UK had similar levels of income inequality. By 2005 the gap between the two had increased by 14%.<\/li>\n<li>Since the 1980s, income inequality in the United States and the UK  has increased substantially and has  returned to levels not seen since  the 1920s.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How do I know? These facts are extracted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.equalitytrust.org.uk\/digest2-launch\">this research diges<\/a>t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK income inequality increased by 32% between 1960 and 2005. During the same period, it increased by 23% in the USA, and in Sweden decreased by 12%. In the 1960s Sweden and the UK had similar levels of income inequality. By 2005 the gap between the two had increased by 14%. Since the 1980s, income [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-current-affairs","category-british-current-affairs","category-social-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6114"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6117,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6114\/revisions\/6117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}