http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/the-haves-and-the-have-nots/ http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/the-haves-and-t... This chart puts inequa

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/the-haves-and-the-have-nots/ http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/the-haves-and-t... This chart puts inequality in some perspective for me... The poorest Americans are still in the 68th percentile for world-wide inequality. I suspect that if you charted European countries on this map, the line would start higher and end lower than the US, hence their lower Gini.