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30,000 Americans Earn 6% of Total National Income

This chart shows the share of U.S. income earned by the top 1/100th of one percent  of the U.S. population (annual data from 1913 to 2007). Looks like we have a little ways to go before returning to the inequality levels of the 1950s and '60s (no need to go back to the '70s, though).

 

Sources: SimoleonSense, Socimages.

Posted by manualofideas on August 19, 2009 11:16 AM |

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