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According to FORBES magazine as reported by Anne Stych for Biz-Women on 4/2/21, there are 2,755 BILLIONaires in America. Of these, 328 are females, some who inherited wealth and many who made it themselves.Some mentioned on the list were Kayne West at #1750 with only $1.8 Billion. His ex-wife trails at the bottom of the list at #2674 with only $1 Billion. Those at the top of the list have about $40 Billion.

When you consider there are over 4 million Millionaires, it is obvious where most (about 75% of all income) the money in America is going since the MEDIAN individual income for working Americans remains at about $40,000 per year.

As long as the politicians want to suppress the lowest wages (the only ones they can control by laws), America will continue to have a divided nation. Those who matter to those who are elected and those they can disregard as unimportant.

The last report on Alabama wealthy was that this state has only one billionaire family -- the Harberts. Where do the other 2,754 live?

(04-12-2021 04:18 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  According to FORBES magazine as reported by Anne Stych for Biz-Women on 4/2/21, there are 2,755 BILLIONaires in America. Of these, 328 are females, some who inherited wealth and many who made it themselves.Some mentioned on the list were Kayne West at #1750 with only $1.8 Billion. His ex-wife trails at the bottom of the list at #2674 with only $1 Billion. Those at the top of the list have about $40 Billion.

When you consider there are over 4 million Millionaires, it is obvious where most (about 75% of all income) the money in America is going since the MEDIAN individual income for working Americans remains at about $40,000 per year.

As long as the politicians want to suppress the lowest wages (the only ones they can control by laws), America will continue to have a divided nation. Those who matter to those who are elected and those they can disregard as unimportant.

The last report on Alabama wealthy was that this state has only one billionaire family -- the Harberts. Where do the other 2,754 live?

Mainly in states like California, New York,Texas and Florida.

(04-19-2021 11:47 AM)C-Finder Wrote:  

(04-12-2021 04:18 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  According to FORBES magazine as reported by Anne Stych for Biz-Women on 4/2/21, there are 2,755 BILLIONaires in America. Of these, 328 are females, some who inherited wealth and many who made it themselves.Some mentioned on the list were Kayne West at #1750 with only $1.8 Billion. His ex-wife trails at the bottom of the list at #2674 with only $1 Billion. Those at the top of the list have about $40 Billion.

When you consider there are over 4 million Millionaires, it is obvious where most (about 75% of all income) the money in America is going since the MEDIAN individual income for working Americans remains at about $40,000 per year.

As long as the politicians want to suppress the lowest wages (the only ones they can control by laws), America will continue to have a divided nation. Those who matter to those who are elected and those they can disregard as unimportant.

The last report on Alabama wealthy was that this state has only one billionaire family -- the Harberts. Where do the other 2,754 live?

Mainly in states like California, New York,Texas and Florida.

Perhaps what that tells us is that the bosses stay in such high standard of living states while placing their companies in states that offer the best tax abatements and cheapest workers available in America. Remember that in 2016 the state legislature passed a law stating that no municipality (like B'ham tried) could raise the local minimum wage above federal levels thereby guaranteeing that Alabama workers would remain the cheapest labor in America. "Alabama values" seem to be "work harder, work cheaper, keep your mouth shut about working conditions and look at those wealthier states as somehow inferior to our state"(while so many of our best & brightest move there).

Upstate New York looks a lot more like rural Alabama than you would ever care to acknowledge. I don’t know this through hear say, I grew up In the area. Standard of living is a crock of ****, unless you are looking at cities. Cities offer more for obvious reasons, in any state.

Just because there is no national standard metric for "Standard of living" does not mean it is a "crock of ****". Every decade the national census tells the nation what and where the better living conditions exist. A past census told us that the average adult in New York had a 12th grade education while the average for an adult in Alabama was 9th grade. Their average annual income reflected this advantage in New York's favor.

Since 2000, about two dozen rural hospitals have closed in Alabamaa and.many of the remaining ones are in deep financial troubles. If pregnant women in such counties desire an OB/GYN MD deliver their baby, they must plan on an almost two hour drive to the nearest adequate facility. Yes,, Virginia, there is such a thing as "standard of living" and more Americans are moving intrastate and interstate to get it. Alabama 's insistence on maintaining its 19th century political culture is costing it as people "vote with their feet" and our electoral vote count continues to drop (from 1945's 11 to 2024's possible 8 and maybe 7..

The Blazer in IOWA can put this info on "ignore" since he, like so many of his fellow UAB grads, don't live in Alabama any more.

New York has a population of roughly 20 million people. About 1.4M of those live in rural areas.
Alabama has a population of roughly 5 million people. About 1.1M of those live in rural areas.

I don't know how to make this any clearer to you. That's appx 5% of the population in rural areas vs appx 20%. Rural populations in New York have the same issues rural populations in any other state have. The rub on stats here is you aren't comparing apples to apples when you compare averages the way you are. I bet if you looked at the stats for average education in Huntsville, Birmingham, etc. those would be much higher than the rural areas are.

And the cost of living in a city like New York, where almost half of the state's population is, drives up the average income. I would argue that you could live a better life in Alabama on $50,000 a year than you could in New York making $100,000.

https://stacker.com/stories/2779/states-...opulations

Look at this and see if you can find a correlation between large rural populations and living conditions in states.

I admit to little knowledge of the populations of rural New York, but there is more to Alabama's differences than just numbers and percentages. Like how many rural hospitals have been closed in New York so that a traffic accident victim who can't be treated adequately by an EMT is in real danger of death. That is one reason our rural highway death toll is twice the national average.
How many in rural New York were blocked from voting rights until 1970? A politician once remarked that a cannon could be fired across the Alabama Black Belt to Georgia and not risk killing a single registered voter. What 4 lane hiways cross that area west of Montgomery to MS?
Was school in New York like rural Alabama with white kids in school for 6 months and Negro kids in school for 3 months until the 1950s? Each Alabama county had at least one white high school by the 1920s, but most rural counties had none for Blacks. One rural public school had its football helmets disappear just as the new private school got newly repainted helmets for its new team. Coincidence?
How many New York counties are numbered among the poorest in America? Wilcox County has that distinction. The previous Gov signed a deal with the Chinese to bring in a Golden Copper plant there, but I've heard nothing more about it.
In 1966, George Wallace could not succeed himself and the popular Ryan DeGraffenreid had a head start in the primary. Ryan was killed in a private plane crash and two weeks later, Lurleen Wallace declared she would run as a stand in for her husband. Some just have a lot of luck.

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/fi...-2020.html
https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/fi...osing.html

Here are some articles on the rural hospital closures.

If you want answers to the rest, I'm sure you can look them up.

(04-30-2021 08:21 AM)blazers9911 Wrote:  https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/fi...-2020.html
https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/fi...osing.html

Here are some articles on the rural hospital closures.

If you want answers to the rest, I'm sure you can look them up.

Thanks for the charts on closures. It will take a while to read and interpret the info.