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This interesting blog from the Resolution Foundation explores the connection between inequality and Donald Trump's win.

Torsten Bell says the move towards Mr Trump and away from the Democrats "was entirely amongst middle and low income voters, with a huge 16% point net move".

He blames two big trends that have been building in the US for the last 40 years.

First is "the simple fact that wages for the typical worker have not kept pace with the growth of the economy during that time – and indeed have simply flat-lined for large chunks of that period" (see chart below).

The second is the falling rate of workforce participation, as opposed to employment.

"In America today many more people are neither working nor looking for work than was the case in the past. This partly reflects a failure in the US to bring women into the labour force in the way that has been done in much of Europe, but it is driven by more and more men dropping out of the world of work entirely," Mr Bell says.

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