The CIA World Factbook pegs our GINI coefficient at the more or less the same levels as Ivory Coast and Uruguay. Without getting technical, that is an abysmal metric. And ironically, there is presently less social mobility here in the "land of the free" than in the former lands of the gentry in Europe that many of our ancestors left to come here.
These are not magical outcomes but the result of deliberate policy choices that can be undone. Though with an angry public set to put back in power the very same bozos who got us to this unfortunate spot, it doesn't look very likely at the moment.
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