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Sociology
Undergraduate 1
12/09/2009

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1.5 billion
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amount of money earned by George Soros in a year
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48 billion
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the total net worth of the worlds richest man
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39% of all of the nations wealth
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percentage of wealth held by the 1% of the population
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10 richest 10 %
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percentage that hole 70% of nations wealth
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40 percent poorest
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hold only .2% of the wealth
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9.8times more
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the amount of more money the worlds richest earned than the bottom 5th
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1 %
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comprise the upper class
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13 billionares
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home of santa clara county
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65%
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comprise the middle class
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650,000
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number of people killed in the anngolan wars
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85%
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number of people in angola who survive subsistence agriculture
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1/5th
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worlds population that lacks adequate shelter and water
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90%
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percentage of virginians who inherited money from grandparents
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23%
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percentage of men who started out at the bottom and moved their way up to the top
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11%
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poverty rate when nixon was president
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11 of 24 years
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amount of decrease of poverty rate of repiblicans
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68%
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percentage of poor people in the US who were white
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12%
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percentage of poor who remain poor 5 years from now
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39.5 million
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number of people in poverty
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3.5
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percent of the worlds population who traveled as tourists. trippled to 11.3 in 2001
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5000 years ago
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globalization began
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45% of worlds population
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worth of the worlds 358 billionaires
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bottom 57 percents income
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worlds 1% richest equal in amount of money
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1 billion women
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living on a dollar a day out of 1.3 billion
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47% of worlds populaition
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lived on less than 2 dollars a day
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24%
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percentage that americans are spending to aid in other countries
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