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Ecuador will be able to recover from the strike in the second half of 2022
Ecuadorian Amazon loses 379,000 hectares of forest in almost four decades
Extra and eco gasoline prices at $2.40 and diesel at $1.75 are already in force in Ecuador
Ministry of Agriculture began the delivery of seeds, inputs and subsidized fertilizers up to 70%
Guillermo Lasso: ‘Now together we begin the task of transforming this peace into progress, well-being and opportunities for all’
Government and Conaie agree to end the strike after a tense morning
Ecuador asks Mexico for a response on bananas and shrimp
Losses in the non-oil export sector amount to $85 million in 16 days of strike
The Government withdraws from the dialogue table after the death of a soldier
Popular oil would arrive in stores from this week at prices ranging from $1 to $1.25

U.S. registers a growing economic inequality

Posted On 05 Mar 2014

Screen Shot 2014-03-04 at 21.16.07The growing economic inequality in U.S. has its greatest passage in big cities where it becomes more palpable and real the big income gap between rich and poor people.

According to a recent report by Brookings, a research center based in Washington, wealthiest 5% of the population in the top 50 cities enters more than 10.8 times more than 20% depauperate, while in the whole of the U.S. difference ratio is 9.1.

According to the document, Atlanta, San Francisco, Miami, Boston and Washington DC are the five most unequal cities in the U.S.

Also highlight the sixth place from New York, Chicago on the eighth and the ninth of Los Angeles.

At the other spectrum of the scale, El Paso, Seattle and Denver were the cities where more inequality declined between 2007 and 2012 thanks partly to have higher minimum wages, which made the least prosperous revenues fell with less intensity.

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