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Income Inequality At Highest Levels Since 1920s

12/17/2016

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No coincidence that it's the highest since just before the Great Depression. And it's been happening under Democratic and Republican administrations:

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The income gap in the U.S. is the biggest that it has been since the 1920s, while income inequality has steadily increased over the last several decades, a new report found.

The paper, published by EPI for the Economic Analysis and Research Network (EARN), analyzed IRS data of income inequality trends between 1917 and 2012 and found that the top 1 percent of taxpayers have seen their incomes grow after the Great Recession alarmingly faster than the rest of Americans have in every single state except West Virginia.
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