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Public Employee Press
The World of Work
Half the world lives on $2 a day Elite
Wall Street traders earned as much as $33,000 an hour in 2005, according to the
New York State comptroller. That year, the average U.S. household took
in $46,326. So in 1 hour and 23 minutes, the top brokers made as much as the average
family makes in a year. But in the rest of the world, 3 billion people
one half of the global population scratch by on $2 a day, according
to the United Nations. The richest 2 percent of the worlds population
owns more than half of the globes wealth. And the richest three people
Microsofts Bill Gates, investor Warren Buffet and Mexican telecom owner
Carlos Slim Helu are worth more than the poorest 48 nations combined.
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