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    "Distribution of Household Wealth in the U.S. since 1989",
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  "textContent": "Using the Federal Reserve’s Distribution of Household Wealth in the U.S. since 1989 data, Ryan Thorpe imagines a pizza party with 100 guests and 100 slices of pizza as a stand-in for the United States:\n\n> We’re having a pizza party with 100 guests! Let’s divvy up the slices the way wealth is divided among American households:\n>\n> • 1 person gets 30 slices\n> • 9 people get 3.7 slices each\n> • 40 people get 0.75 slices each\n> • 50 people get 0.05 slices each\n>\n> Dig in! But watch out for “those people” trying to steal your 0.05.\n\nI checked the math and it’s not quite 100 slices…it’s ~96.1 I whipped up a pizza pie chart (embedded above) so you can visualize how much each person gets. Is this the kind of party we Americans want to attend on a daily basis?\n\n  1. I imagine Thorpe rounded off some numbers for clarity. ↩\n\n\n\n\n**Tags:** infoviz · pizza · Ryan Thorpe · usa · wealth",
  "title": "American Wealth, Sliced Up",
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