Income disparities have become so pronounced that America's top 10 percent  now average more than nine times as much income as the bottom 90 percent.  Americans in ... The nation's highest 0.1 percent of income-earners have, over  recent decades, seen their incomes rise much faster than the rest of the top 1  percent.
Income inequality in the United States has increased significantly since the  1970s after several decades of stability, meaning the share of the nation's income  received by higher income households has increased. This trend is evident with  income measured both before taxes (market income) as well as after taxes and ...
The most striking numbers on income inequality will come last, showing the  dramatic change in the ratio of the average CEO's paycheck to that of the  average factory worker over the past 40 years. ... And the top 1% of income  earners actually pay a smaller percentage of their incomes to taxes than the 9%  just below them.
Mar 5, 1992 ... What is making people sit up now is recent evidence that the richest 1 percent of  American families appears to have reaped most of the gains from the prosperity  of the last decade and a half. An outsized 60 percent of the growth in the average  after-tax income of all American families between 1977 and ...
These nine charts illustrate how income inequality, earnings gaps,  homeownership rates, retirement savings, student loan debt, and lopsided asset- building ... no wealth on average to being about $1,000 in debt,; those in the  middle more than doubled their wealth,; families near the top (at the 90th  percentile) saw their ...
In the last decade, the average income of the bottom 90 percent of all working Americans actually declined. The top 1 percent saw their income rise by an average of more than a quarter of a million dollars each.