The gap between rich and poor last year is the highest

The gap between the rich and poor in American society reached record highs last year, according to the latest U.S. Census data released 28th. 20% of the rich have 50% of the wealth. The US Community Survey, released in Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau, showed that the top 20% of the wealthy had received 49.4% of all U.S. personal income last year, while the 20% of the people struggling below the poverty line had only 3.4% of their total income.　　The former has an annual income of more than 100,000 dollars, the latter only 20,000 dollars.　　From the regional situation, the New York State, Connecticut State and Texas the gap between the rich and poor is the most disparity. The Gini-coefficient hyper-cordon report also said the United States last year's Gini coefficient of 0.468, the Census Bureau began in 1967 to count the highest in household income since.　　The Gini coefficient is an indicator of the fairness of the distribution of income, from 0 to 1, the higher the coefficient, the more unfair the income distribution, the internationally recognized wealth distribution gap "alert value" is 0.4. The poverty of the United States reached 43.6 million in 2009, an increase of nearly 4 million from 2008. This means that every 7 Americans have a poor population. This is the highest number of poor people in the United States in 51 years.　　Among the poor, the number of low-skilled people aged 18 to 34 has increased fastest. Smithin, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says the reason for this is that the economic crisis has led to limited job opportunities and employers prefer to retain or hire older employees.　　If these unemployed young people do not have the skills training needed for their future jobs, the labour market may have potential problems. (Shen Yu Green)