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Thirty years later, today, the top one percent shares over 20 percent of national [income], while the bottom 50 percent of Americans share 12 or 13.
If the trend continues, the top one percent will share over 30 percent of national [income] in another 30 years, while the bottom 50 percent of Americans will share just six.
No matter how wealthy a few plutocrats get, we can never drive a great national economy.
Here in the United States, the national government has tied itself up in partisan knots.
In Seattle, where I'm from, we've become part of a great global array of cities that are now working together bypassing government altogether, national government altogether, in order to try to meet the carbon reduction goals of the Kyoto Protocol.
I couldn't believe that something like this could happen in a national capital.
When the book came out, it had fair reviews in the national papers, but the paper of choice in Luton is not The Guardian, it's the Luton News, and the Luton News ran the headline about the book, "The Book That May Heal a 32-Year-Old Rift."
So today what you have is what I call the middle 40 percent, the people who are not in the top 10 and who are not in the bottom 50, and what you can view as the wealth middle class that owns 20 to 30 percent of total wealth, national wealth, whereas they used to be poor, a century ago, when there was basically no wealth middle class.
Having a decent share of the national wealth for the middle class is not bad for growth.
For that matter, between the post office and any national banking system that has a large network that serves the poor.
Voter turnout around the world peaked in the late '80s, and it has been declining at a pace that we have never seen before, and if those numbers are bad at the national level, at the level of our cities, they are just dismal.
The only thing they didn't have is that they didn't have their own national television station, and so I remember watching TV from neighboring South Africa, and watching Nelson Mandela in jail being offered a chance to come out if he would give up the apartheid struggle.
The man responsible, who runs the national bank there, by the way, won an Ig Nobel prize in mathematics.
But he used that, Hazare ended up with this massive CSV file of mobile phone numbers, and he used that to deploy real people power on the ground to get hundreds of thousands of people out on the streets in Delhi to make a national point of everyday corruption in India.
This involved a journey into national and global advocacy and meeting some of the most extraordinary people in the world.
Civil society diplomats do three things: They voice the concerns of the people, are not pinned down by national interests, and influence change through citizen networks, not only state ones.
Can citizens influence and shape national and global policy?"
In just a few years, we not only changed national legislation that made it much more difficult for civilians to buy a gun, but we collected and destroyed almost half a million weapons.
They used our national flag, our independence anthem.
Within weeks, our national congress approved the disarmament bill that had been languishing for years.
On page seven he says, "The welfare of a nation can, therefore, scarcely be inferred from a measurement of national income as defined above."
Week two, national media.
Moving down to these two national parks, Cahuinari and Puré in the Colombian Amazon — that's the Brazilian border to the right — it's home to several groups of isolated and uncontacted peoples.
This violence, this brutality, is really something that's part of our national psyche.
["The ancient 'Lion of Nimrud' went missing from this city's national museum in 2003 (along with a lot of other stuff)"] This is also why we are now able to see the first self-driving cars.
In one year, a kindergarten class in Harlem, New York scored in the 95th percentile on the national achievement test.
And together with other teammates in the National Forest Department, we were assigned a task to join a team and find out the causes of deforestation, and make a plan to combat that at a national level, involving the local governments, the civil society, business, local communities, in an effort that could tackle those causes.
So the first thing, we set up a system with the national space agency that could actually see where deforestation is happening, almost in real time.
As an Indian-born French national who lives in the United States, my hope is that we transcend this artificial North-South divide so that we can harness the collective ingenuity of innovators from around the world to cocreate frugal solutions that will improve the quality of life of everyone in the world, while preserving our precious planet.
In 2006, when Congo held the first free national elections in its history, many observers thought that an end to violence in the region had finally come.
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