<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:24pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">This why I say we need a tax system that doesn't tax on the first $30,<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR>000 of income per earner and 25% on every dollar over that.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Donovan Arnold</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN class=yiv1355979083abody><B><BR><BR>Income gap grows among U.S. workers</B></SPAN><SPAN class=yiv1355979083abody><B> <BR><BR>WASHINGTON</B></SPAN><SPAN class=yiv1355979083abody> – Fifty percent of U.S. workers earned less than $26,364 last year, reflecting a growing income gap between the nation’s rich and poor, the government reported Thursday.<BR><BR>There were fewer jobs, and overall pay was trending down – except for the nation’s wealthiest. The number of people making $1 million or more soared by more than 18 percent from 2009, the Social Security Administration said, citing payroll data based on W-2 forms submitted by employers to the Internal Revenue Service.<BR><BR>Despite population growth, the number of Americans with jobs fell again last year, with total employment of just under 150.4 million – down from 150.9 million in 2009.<BR><BR></SPAN><SPAN class=yiv1355979083abody><I>Associated Press</I></SPAN><SPAN
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