“A lot of people think the very richest people consist of a bunch of investment bankers and some CEOs, and that’s about it. And there are a lot of them up there, about 60% of the top income slice. But that means you have 40% that aren’t in any of those positions--you have doctors and lawyers, you have people that work for universities, some farmers and so on.”
SPEA researcher Kirsten Grønbjerg has spent the past several years studying non-profits in Indiana, and found that they may be even more important than we assume.
Since the mid-1970s, Vietnam has rapidly modernized, becoming the world's second fastest growing economy after China. But, as in many developing countries, growth has been accompanied by corruption.
“Flame retardants are structurally quite similar to PCBs, so there’s been a lot of toxicological reasoning by analogy,” Hites says. “PCBs have a long list of problems, and flame retardants are likely to have them too.”
