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Income inequality growing faster in UK than any other rich country, says OECD Top 10% have incomes 12 times greater than bottom 10%, up from eight times greater in 1985, thinktank’s study reveals

December 6, 2011
Income inequality growing faster in UK than any other rich country, says OECD  Top 10% have incomes 12 times greater than bottom 10%, up from eight times greater in 1985, thinktank’s study reveals

    Protesters against income inequality in London. The OECD said the share of the top 1% had increased from 7.1% in 1970 to 14.3% in 2005. Photograph: Mike Kemp/In Pictures/Corbis Income inequality among working-age people has risen faster in Britain than in any other rich nation since the mid-1970s, according to a report by [...]

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