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Income Distribution And Poverty In Nevada, Danielle Ely, Christina Morales, David R. Dickens Jr.
Income Distribution And Poverty In Nevada, Danielle Ely, Christina Morales, David R. Dickens Jr.
Social Health of Nevada Reports
In his famous visit to the U.S. early in the nineteenth century, the French observer Alexis de Tocqueville was surprised by what he saw as “an equality of condition” in his travels around the country. Although he commented on the existence of wealth in the new nation, he was impressed by what he saw as its relative lack of concentration (de Tocqueville 1969). Recent studies by social historians, however, discovered that de Tocqueville was mistaken. Further research suggests that a pattern of highly unequal distributions of wealth and income persisted from the time of the Revolution up through the end …
Income Distribution And Poverty In Nevada, David R. Dickens Jr., Christina Morales
Income Distribution And Poverty In Nevada, David R. Dickens Jr., Christina Morales
Social Health of Nevada Reports
In his famous visit to the U.S. early in the nineteenth century, the French observer Alexis de Tocqueville was surprised by what he saw as “an equality of condition” in his travels around the country. Although he commented on the existence of wealth in the new nation, he was impressed by what he saw as its relative lack of concentration (de Tocqueville 1969). Recent studies by social historians, however, suggest that de Tocqueville was mistaken. In their examination of tax forms, old census documents, and probate records, these scholars document a high degree of inequality, particularly wealth inequality (Hurst 2004). …