He shuttled documents to the State Department for a courier service in Foggy Bottom, earning about $40 the morning of June 19.
But while people at the top of drug trafficking organisations earn prodigious amounts of money, people at the bottom earn very little.
The color of the square indicates the category of study — science, humanities, etc. Median yearly earnings are shown on the vertical axis: Majors that appear toward the top of the chart tend to earn more, and those toward the bottom earn less.
In 1980-2001, top top quartile of private-equity funds produced an annual rate of return of 23%, well ahead of the S&P; the bottom quartile earned investors only 4%.
The top quartile of private-equity funds produced an annual rate of return of 23%, well ahead of the S&P; the bottom quartile earned investors only 4% (see chart 3).
In the counties of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut that make up the metropolitan area, the top one-fifth of earners made nearly 20 times what the bottom fifth earned, according to the first such detailed measure of local income inequality by the Census Bureau.
The two men each have several disciplinary infractions since the late 1980's, but the parole board noted that Mr. Bottom had earned a degree and certificates for "good works" while serving time.
Across the academic spectrum, "over half of the STEM degrees went to students whose [SAT math] scores put them in the top third of their class; those in the bottom third earned about one-sixth of the degrees," Sander and Taylor continue.
Per person, the top group received 440 times as much as the average person in the bottom half earned, nearly doubling the gap from 1980".
