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The article reports that household incomes are growing again in the U.S. after a lengthy period of stagnation. It mentions that the low-income Americans appear to have fared the best in the upside-down post-pandemic period, in addition, shifts in taxation have failed to keep up with the explosive growth in incomes for America's wealthiest.

The article focuses on the rationalness of being thin. It mentions that there is typically a gently downward sloping relationship between most measures of weight, like body mass index (BMI), a measure of obesity, or the share of a population that is obese, and income, as measured by wages, the share of people below a poverty line or their income quartile.

The article discusses the impact of misfiring environmentalism in the context of climate change and its potential harm to the world's poor particularly in developing countries. Topics include the challenges of funding green development projects, the impact of global warming on vulnerable communities and the trade-offs between economic development and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

The article reports that Somalia lurched between disorder and anarchy as the government controls only bits of the country and the rest is in the hands of jihadists adept at blowing themselves up in crowded places. Topics include considered that for many Somalis life is poor, brutish and short as they live in the world's fifth poorest and eighth most violent country.

The article informs on in different ways rich and poor are fending for themselves in South Africa. It mentions that police cannot control the crime and the community is angry, diepsloot has the fourth-highest rate of violent assault of any police precinct in the country, and addiction to nyaope- a mix of cheap heroin, cannabis, antiretroviral drugs and dilutants-is common.

The article highlights the results of economic research on South African inequality from 1993 to 2019 published by academics Aroop Chatterjee, Léo Czajka and Amory Gethin in 2021. There was an increase in the percentage of income of the top 10% of earners while the average income of the poorest declined by more than 30% after inflation. It cites the effect of value-added tax on poor people. Also noted is attribution of the narrowing of racial income gap to the African elite.