Income inequality, highest in 50 years

[Wheezooo]

Perhaps the point is to close the gap. Which would be beneficial to all of us.

Or teach people math, and that presenting the standard deviation of something without presenting the mean is f'n worthless and moronic.

 

[KeLo]

Aside from the overall veracity of "Swedish think tanks", it would really help to have a link;

I would suspect the above to be somewhat related to property prices. If you don't own your home, you are f*cked in the big cities (oh yeah, you can also spend half your life in a queue for a rental place).

Still, I would rather be "poor" in Sweden than the US as I would never worry about healthcare expenses, worry less about education for my hypothetical children (Swedish school system though very well funded sucks for different reasons), etc.

(Yeah I am from and living in Sweden.)

I was relying on my memory from a book I read recently.

It is from the book "Freedom Manifesto" (2012) by Steve Forbes, p. 187.
The think tank is Timbro.
https://books.google.com/books?id=psNKbDMvG38C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Freedom+Manifesto#v=onepage&q=Freedom Manifesto&f=false

Go to page 187. The study web link seems dead however.

As for "health care," it is really illness care in the USA. Very few seem interested in health care.

 

[KeLo]

Here is a segment John Stossel did on Sweden, as many Americans have an incorrect view of Swedish economics (according to the video).