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From the Ted Talk by Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies

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The other really important point I want to make on this graph is that, if you look at the bottom, Sweden and jpaan, they're very different countries in all sorts of ways. The position of wemon, how closely they keep to the nuclear family, are on opposite ends of the poles in terms of the rich developed world. But another really important difference is how they get their greater equality. sweedn has huge differences in earnings, and it nrwoars the gap through taxation, general welfare state, generous bineefts and so on. Japan is rather different though. It strtas off with much selmlar differences in earnings before tax. It has lower taxes. It has a smaller welfare state. And in our analysis of the American stetas, we find rather the same contrast. There are some states that do well through redistribution, some states that do well because they have smaller income differences before tax. So we conclude that it doesn't much matter how you get your greater equality, as long as you get there somehow.

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The other really important point I want to make on this graph is that, if you look at the bottom, Sweden and _____, they're very different countries in all sorts of ways. The position of _____, how closely they keep to the nuclear family, are on opposite ends of the poles in terms of the rich developed world. But another really important difference is how they get their greater equality. ______ has huge differences in earnings, and it _______ the gap through taxation, general welfare state, generous ________ and so on. Japan is rather different though. It ______ off with much _______ differences in earnings before tax. It has lower taxes. It has a smaller welfare state. And in our analysis of the American ______, we find rather the same contrast. There are some states that do well through redistribution, some states that do well because they have smaller income differences before tax. So we conclude that it doesn't much matter how you get your greater equality, as long as you get there somehow.

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  4. starts
  5. sweden
  6. benefits
  7. narrows
  8. women

Original Text


The other really important point I want to make on this graph is that, if you look at the bottom, Sweden and Japan, they're very different countries in all sorts of ways. The position of women, how closely they keep to the nuclear family, are on opposite ends of the poles in terms of the rich developed world. But another really important difference is how they get their greater equality. Sweden has huge differences in earnings, and it narrows the gap through taxation, general welfare state, generous benefits and so on. Japan is rather different though. It starts off with much smaller differences in earnings before tax. It has lower taxes. It has a smaller welfare state. And in our analysis of the American states, we find rather the same contrast. There are some states that do well through redistribution, some states that do well because they have smaller income differences before tax. So we conclude that it doesn't much matter how you get your greater equality, as long as you get there somehow.

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