Life expectancy isn't increasing at the same rate for all, and for some it is declining, with the gap between rich and poor stretching to more than 10 years.
As the middle class continues to decline and the gap between the very rich and everyone else grows wider, we should keep that in mind as Congress debates the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the largest trade agreement in American history.
As opportunities in pastoralism decay, livestock holdings per household declines, increasing the gap between rich and poor (Teklu et al., 2015 Factors constraining livestock mobility and their implications on rangelands and livelihood of Borana pastoralists, Forthcoming).
Thereby, livestock holding per household; income from livestock; livestock species composition has declined and also the gap between rich and the poor is widening (Teklu et al., 2015: Factors constraining livestock mobility and their implications on rangelands and livelihood of Borana pastoralists, Forthcoming).
A 2010 UNICEF analysis showed that in 18 out of 26 countries where the national child mortality rate had declined by 10 per cent, the gap between the rates in the richest and poorest quintiles had either grown or remained unchanged.
A UNICEF analysis last year showed that in 18 out of 26 countries where the national under-five mortality rate had declined by 10 per cent, the gap between the child mortality rates of the richest and poorest quintiles had either grown or remained unchanged.
But he said that Britain's high level of public debt meant it was unwise to spend and borrow beyond the "automatic fiscal stabilisers" - the automatic spending that kicks in during a recession to fill the gap between declining tax receipts and increases in benefit payments.
In these times of declining social mobility, and as the gap between the rich and the poor ever increases, dominant groups attempt to divide the dispossessed by pointing to scapegoats to blame.
If New York's building cleaners can ultimately prove that collective barging and action helped them hold onto wages and benefits that move them close to or into the middle class, other workers -- most of whom have watched their wages stagnate or decline in the last decade, and the gap between their own pay and that of executives grow -- will take notice, Compa believes.
However, stories like this bridged the gap between a declining monarchy and its increasingly powerful and literate people.
