TheOnion: Are America’s Rich Falling Behind The Super-Rich?

by Catherine on October 8, 2007

Although this is a a brilliant parody from the Onion, the premise is true.

If you take look at this graph of the top 5% (comparing the top 1% to the next 4%) and this graph of Top 1% (comparing the top 0.1%, the next 0.4%, to the lower 0.5%), you can see how the richer you are the more your share of the total income in the US has increased since the 1970s.

[tags]income distribution, US income distribution, US income inequality, income inequality, onion, superrich[/tags]

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1 Sharon Odom: I could not open the movie. Is there anyway I can download it from another site?

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2 Catherine: You might try http://www.blinkx.com/video/in-the-know-are-america-rich-falling-behind-the-super-rich/8rIpySIFJsjjfJcL03m-pg.

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