Opinion | America Will Struggle After Coronavirus. These Charts Show Why. – The New York Times

America’s economy has almost doubled in size over the last four decades, but broad measures of the nation’s economic health conceal the unequal distribution of gains. A small portion of the population has pocketed most of the new wealth, and the coronavirus pandemic is laying bare the consequences of the unequal distribution of prosperity.Consider first the most commonly quoted measure of the nation’s success — gross domestic product — in the chart below:

Source: Opinion | America Will Struggle After Coronavirus. These Charts Show Why. – The New York Times

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