Los Angeles' Getty Museum can become a great beacon if it will reach out to this area's diverse population. Once again, an accurate picture for this Labor Day is that America is not stuck in upper and lower classes but is a rich and striving society in which great initiatives are possible. It's a time of opportunity. Wage inequality has been narrowing for most of the 1990s, as a strong economy has created jobs and given a better break to the lowest paid workers. The chart shows wage patterns in manufacturing across 18 industries, as measured by the University of Texas Inequality Project.
Similar patterns occur in service industries, a project leader says.
Statistics show mean asset holdings in thousands of dollars to 1995, but trends continue to the present along with stock market gains have continued. Net worth, in 1995 dollars. 241.18 A carpenter wipes the perspiration from his face at a construction site near downtown Los Angeles.