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Walton calls himself "a revolutionary" and "an internationalist." He says that he cannot understand labels of nationality or why people in California are so much more affluent than those just across the border in Baja California. "My concept of revolution," he explains, "has nothing to do with violence. Instead, each person starts within himself questioning his own values, judgments and relationship to society. Ultimately, you wind up living as part of the problem or part of the solution...
LINDBERGH: In relation to our present resources, population and affluent life-styles in Europe and America, we quite obviously cannot maintain our present rate of growth. What do we do? Does this trend bend? Does it break...
...families making more than $17,760, those who constitute the most affluent fifth of the economic hierarchy, earned 41.4% of the nation's aggregate income. Meanwhile, those in the bottom fifth, making less than $5,612 annually, took in 5.4% of the total income. Those percentages have been little changed for a quarter-century. Nor was there any appreciable difference over the same period in the income shares of families in the middle brackets...
...poverty in the U.S., the nation has long had a progressive income tax and public programs to help lift those on the bottom of the economic ladder. Yet in its annual report last week the Council of Economic Advisers came to a surprising conclusion: the income differences between affluent and poor Americans yawned as wide in 1972 as they...
Less Promising. Government programs aimed largely at helping low-income groups-Social Security, welfare, Medicare, food stamps-have grown enormously, and in fiscal 1973 cost a total of $76 billion. But many Government benefits go to affluent people too. In 1970, according to one federal study, 38% of all American families were receiving some type of payment from some level of government; 22% of the families with incomes of more than $25,000 received benefits...