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Wordless Wednesday: Inequality In America

Wednesday August 20, 2008
income chart
The total household income of the upper 1% in 2005 was almost five times greater than that of all households in the bottom 20%, which is the area underneath that bottom green line in the chart above. In 1979, it was only 1.6 times greater.
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