Dec 10, 2010 ... "Mr. President, in the year 2007, the top 1 percent of all income earners in the  United States made 23.5 percent of all income," Sanders said. "The top 1 percent  earned 23.5 percent of all income--more than the entire bottom 50 percent. That  is apparently not enough. The percentage of income going to the ...
Feb 19, 2014 ... They find the share of income captured by the top 1 percent climbed from 9.9  percent in 1979 to 23.5 percent in 2007.3 The share of income earned by the top  ... By 2012, the most recent year for which national-level data are available, the  top 1 percent earned 22.5 percent of all income in the United States.
Sep 9, 2009 ... During those years, the Piketty-Saez data also show, the inflation-adjusted  income of the top 1 percent of households grew more than ten times faster than ...  Table 1: Average Income Gains, Adjusted for Inflation, 2002-2007. Dollar  Increase. Percent Increase. Average Annual Increase. Bottom 90 Percent.
Dec 22, 2014 ... Top 50 Percent of All Taxpayers Paid 97.2 Percent of All Federal Income Taxes;  Top 1 Percent Paid 38.1 Percent; and Bottom 90 Percent Paid 29.7 Percent of All  Federal Income ... The top 1 percent's average effective tax rate for 2012 of 22.8  percent was slightly lower than that of 2011 (23.5 percent).
Sep 3, 2013 ... the top percentile income share from 23.5 to 18.1 percent (Figure 2). Average  real income for the bottom 99% also fell sharply by 11.6%, also by far the largest  two-year decline since the Great Depression. This drop of 11.6% more than  erases the 6.8% income gain from 2002 to 2007 for the bottom 99%.
In 2007, "the top 1 percent of all income earners in the United States made 23.5 percent of all income," which is "more than the entire bottom 50 percent."