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Data associated with Mother Jones story on income inequality
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Wall Street bonuses in 2014,28.5
Income of all Americans working full-time at minimum wage in 2014,14
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The above was pulled from this story at the this URL: data:application/octet-stream;charset=utf-8,X.1%2CX.2%0AWall%20Street%20bonuses%20in%202014%2C28.5%0AIncome%20of%20all%20Americans%20working%20full-time%20at%20minimum%20wage%20in%202014%2C14

I was kind of stoked to see the "Get the Data" underneath that. Sorry MoJo, you don't get to say you supplied the "data" when you include two values. Data journalism doesn't work that way.

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If you want the actual data, you have to read this report (PDF).

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