On 20 Jan 2004, at 12:31 am, Erik Reuter wrote:
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 09:14:41PM -0600, Dan Minette wrote:OK, first analysis of income by 20% grouping and top 5%.
RR + GB^2 Clinton 1st 20% 7.6% 15.9% 2nd 20% 8.9% 15.5% 3rd 20% 11.2% 14.6% 4th 20% 14.0% 15.8% 5th 20% 24.8% 28.8% top 5% 40.7% 43.4%
The numbers don't exactly match with the GDP numbers for a couple of reasons.
There was approximately 2%-3% greater growth in the numbers of households under RR + GB^2 than under Clinton.
The share of the GDP growth that went to household income was greater under Clinton.
That is fairly strong evidence in support of your contention that
Democrats are better for the poor than Republicans. Under Clinton, the
bottom 40% had approximately DOUBLE the rate of growth as under the best
8 years of RR + GB^2, as you said.
I wonder why JDG hasn't commented.
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