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As the report says, "Nearly a century of human progress separates the best-off and the worst-areas in the state."

Max Benavidez: Latinos, Numbers and the Real World Max Benavidez 2011

The deepest downturn in the U.S. economy since the Great Depression may finally shrink the gap between the very best-off Americans and everyone else.

POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: September 10, 2009 2009

Meanwhile, the gap between the best-off and worst-off Americans remained largely unchanged.

Income Slides to 1996 Levels Conor Dougherty 2011

It'll be hard for the U.S. government to persuade anyone that it takes the long-term deficit seriously if it won't even let a tax cut on the best-off Americans expire on schedule.

What Congress Might Do to Defuse Tax Time Bomb 2010

Professor LEN BURMAN (Syracuse University, Fellow, Brookings Institution) It's really a huge windfall to some of the best-off people in society.

Senate Seeks To Close Hedge Fund Tax Loophole 2010

By 1983 the income share of the best-off percentile was back up to 7%; by 1992 it was 10%; by 1997, 12%; by 2001, 13%; by 2005, 16%.

Britain must close the great pay divide Danny Dorling 2010

There is much more to say about why a society cannot afford to subsidize the best-off at the expense of the worst.

Deepak Chopra: American Inequality: Who Is Subsidizing Our Lifestyle? Deepak Chopra 2010

But - given the evidence that raising the upper rate could actually reduce the contributions made by the best-off in society, covered by Fraser here - wouldn't it be a progressive act to oppose it outright?

Supplementary notes on Osborne's progressive speech 2009

If the 9 billion people who will likely populate the planet in 2050 are to have a standard of living similar to the best-off 500 million people today, the world must generate a lot more energy.

Nurture the Unpredictable 2009

In Kenya in the villages where I work, the best-off families may be able to get the drug for a favored child.

Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009