On 7/31/13 12:45 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
> As I wrote back in December 2011 (“NYC: more unequal than Brazil”),
> for all the glitz, New York City is full of people with very modest
> incomes. The city’s median income a couple of years ago was $28,213,
> on a par with Greece. The poorest tenth of the city’s population has
> a cash income (not counting public benefits) of under $1,000.
>
> What are the rest of us? Chopped liver? One of the crimes of the 1%
> is effacing the lives of the 99%, and it’s not helpful to repeat this
> sort of thing uncritically.

I strongly suspect that the author identifies New York as Manhattan.
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