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Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge criticized the Modi administration for rising income inequality, equating middle-class income levels to pre-colonial times. Kharge cited alarming wage data and ...

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This anomaly—of a high number of billionaires co-existing with low average income—raises critical questions about wealth distribution, economic inequality ... shown in the graph alongside.

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One of the reasons researchers look at the concentration of wealth among the very rich is because “economic inequality spills over into political inequality,” Durlauf said. Those who have the ...

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