America’s growing income gap show two recoveries in action

The Gini index, which measures how income is distributed, reached 0.47 for 2011, its highest point in more than 40 years. The increase represented a 1.6 percentage leap from 2010 and the first statistically significant increase since 1993. What it really means is that the gap between the haves and have-nots is increasing. The index is set up so that a score of ’0′ means that our country’s wealth is distributed perfectly evenly; a score of ’1′ means that one individual is receiving all the income.