Who’s benefitted most from the recession in the USA?

Posted on January 30 2012

This data from the New York Times makes clear who has benefited most and least from the US recession:

So companies have won and paid less tax too.

Workers lost, badly.

And you wonder why people are annoyed?

 

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  1. Demetrius says:
    January 30 2012 at 3:09 pm

    It figures, re tax haven implications check out “Britain’s Biggest Boot Sale” on mine today.

  2. Anthony Zappia says:
    January 31 2012 at 12:56 am

    Hi Richard, did you see the article in The Guardian, by Polly Toynbee – Taxing Wealth? The public mood still escapes the Tories: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/30/tax-on-wealth-public-anger?newsfeed=true