1. Sociology: Your Compass for a New World Robert J. Brym and John Lie Wadsworth Group/Thomson Learning © 2003

2. Chapter 7 Social Stratification: Global and American Perspectives Supplementary Slides

3. Household Income Inequality, U.S.A., 1967-98 (Quintile Ratio) Year Quintile Ratio Source: U.S. Census Bureau (1998a). Note: The quintile ratio is the percent of total national income earned by the top 20% of house- holds divided by the percent of total national income earned by the bottom 20% of households.

4. Household Income Shares, U.S.A., 1967-98 (by Quintile) Year Quintile Ratio Source:U.S. Census Bureau (1998a). Bottom Quintile Top Quintile Middle 60% 1974 1998Change Bottom 20% 4.4 3.6 -0.8 Middle 60% 52.5 47.2 -5.2 Top 20% 43.1 49.2+6.1 Total 100.0100.0

5. Percent of Population With Low Income, Selected Countries,1994-97 Percent Source: U.S. Luxembourg Income Study (1999b). Sweden Germany Canada Italy U.K. U.S.A. Russia

6. Source: Luxembourg Income Study “LIS Inequality Indices” (1999). On the World Wide Web at http://lisweb.ceps.lu/keyfigures/ineqtable.htm (4 June 2001). Income Inequality for Households, Selected Countries, mid-1990s (Gini index) Gini index

7. Type of Health Insurance Coverage Americans Had in 1995 Percent Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Reports, 1997 Population Profile of the United States (Washington D.C.: 1998) p. 36. On the World Wide Web at http://www.census.gov/prod/3/98pubs/p23-194.pdf (21 May 2001).