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How family relationships survive extreme income differences

My sister and I grew up in the same house but she got sick in college and dropped out, and now I make ten times what she does and we both pretend this is normal.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Economic divergence within families challenges the myth that merit determines outcomes while threatening intimate bonds.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Inequality — the data and the debate?”

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