“the wealth of the richest 50 in the US Congress is $1.6B; it’s $95B for the richest 50 in China’s Congress”

Visualized in city maps: “for the first time, upper- and lower-class households together comprise over 50 percent of the population”

Source » Excellent “story map” from ESRI that visualizes both the economic disparity between neighborhoods and the disappearing middle class in several US cities: And for the first time in recorded history, the middle class no longer constitutes the nation’s