&vsize=400&exid=1&exmo=0&exty=5&thre=1&trmo=0&trurl=http://62.232.76.134/Campus/Britcoun/Script/Script.cfm&shuf=0&spdrag=1&sppos=50&skelt=../obj/skelt01.swf&frameup=cnt_txt1.swf&framedown=tpl_truefalse.swf&panel=0&audiolv=70&audiofile=nul&autoplay=0&buffertime=5&tscr=0&audioscript=HTML text&subm=1&hurl=helpfile.swf&cnt_txt=According to the article, are the following statements true or false? Quotes from the article that provide the correct answers can be found in the "hint" of each question, accessed by clicking on the blue circle next to it. When you have finished, click "Submit" to check your answers.&i13_hint=Microsoft CEO Bill Gates has more wealth than the bottom 45 percent of American households combined. &i13_dvalue=0&i13_cvalue=1&i13_txt=One person in the USA has more money than 45%25 of American households put together. &opt2=F&opt1=T&nitem=13&i12_hint=The combined net worth of the Forbes 400 was $738 billion on September 1, 1998. That's up from $624 billion in 1997. That's an average one-year increase of $285 million per person. That works out to $780,000 per day or $32,500 per hour ($541 per second). &i12_dvalue=0&i12_cvalue=1&i12_txt=400 people in the USA earned more than three quarters of a million dollars more each day in 1998 than they had in 1997. &i11_hint=In 1996, the Census Bureau reported record-level inequality, with the top fifth of U.S. households claiming 48.2 percent of national income while the bottom fifth gets by on 3.6 percent.&i11_dvalue=0&i11_cvalue=1&i11_txt=In 1996 20%25 of American households earned almost 50%25 of national income. &i10_hint=Between 1970 and 1990, the typical American worked an additional 163 hours per year. That's equivalent to adding an additional month of work per year - for the same or less pay.&i10_dvalue=0&i10_cvalue=2&i10_txt=Between 1970 and 1990, the average American worked more and got paid more. &i9_hint=In 1998, weekly wages were 12 percent lower than in 1973 on an inflation-adjusted basis. Productivity rose 33 percent over that perioo. Had pay kept pace with productivity, the average hourly wage would now be $18.10, rather than $12.77. That translates into a difference in annual pay of $11,000 for a full-time, year-round worker.&i9_dvalue=0&i9_cvalue=2&i9_txt=Between 1973 and 1998 productivity and pay increased at the same rate in the USA. &i8_hint=Household debt as a percentage of personal income rose from 58 percent in 1973 to an estimated 85 percent in 1997.&i8_dvalue=0&i8_cvalue=2&i8_txt=People in the USA owed 30%25 more as a percentage of personal income in 1997 than in 1973.&i7_hint=The modest net worth of white families is 8 times that of African-Americans and 12 times that of Hispanics.&i7_dvalue=0&i7_cvalue=1&i7_txt=In general, white people in the USA earn a lot more than African-Americans or Hispanic people. &i6_hint=UNDP calculates that an annual 4 percent levy on the world's 225 most well-to-do people (average 1998 wealth: $4.5 billion) would suffice to provide the following essentials for all those in developing countries: adequate food, safe water and sanitation, basic education, basic health care and reproductive health care.&i6_dvalue=0&i6_cvalue=1&i6_txt=If you took less than 5%25 of the amount that the world's 225 richest people earn each year, and gave it to the world's poorest people, they would have the essentials that they need to live decently.&i5_hint=These related phenomena led UN development experts to observe that the world is heading toward "grotesque inequalities," concluding: "Development that perpetuates today's inequalities is neither sustainable nor worth sustaining."&i5_dvalue=0&i5_cvalue=1&i5_txt=UN development experts believe that it is not possible to maintain development that perpetuates today's inequalities. &i4_hint=At present, 3 billion people live on less than $2 per day while 1.3 billion get by on less than $1 per day. Seventy percent of those living on less than $1 per day are women. With global population expanding 80 million per year, World Bank President James D. Wolfensohn cautions that, unless we address "the challenge of inclusion," 30 years hence we will have 5 billion people living on less than $2 per day.&i4_dvalue=0&i4_cvalue=2&i4_txt=World Bank President James D. Wolfensohn predicts that in 30 years, twice as many people will be living on less than $2 a day.&i3_hint=Although 200 million people saw their incomes fall between 1965 and 1980, more than 1 billion people experienced a drop from 1980 to 1993.&i3_dvalue=0&i3_cvalue=1&i3_txt=Five times more people experienced a drop in income between 1980 and 1993 than between 1965 and 1980.&i2_hint=The wealth of the three most well-to-do individuals now exceeds the combined GDP of the 48 least developed countries. &i2_dvalue=0&i2_cvalue=1&i2_txt=There are three people in the world who together have more money than the 48 least developed countries combined?&i1_hint=The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) reported in 1998 that the world's 225 richest people now have a combined wealth of $1 trillion. That's equal to the combined annual income of the world's 2.5 billion poorest people. &i1_dvalue=0&i1_cvalue=2&i1_txt=The world's 225 richest people have more money than the world's 2.5 billion poorest people get each year. &