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How economic inequality harms societies - Richard Wilkinson

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We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows what gets worse when rich and poor are too far apart: real effects on health, lifespan, even such basic values as trust.

What is the speaker's source for the data on income differences in rich developed market democracies?

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