GOP Sen. Rand Paul: We have to talk about cutting Social Security and Medicare.

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61. OK, the dark brown at the bottom represents the bottom 50%.

The lighter brown represents the segment from 50% to 90%. That's 40% more than the bottom part, for a total of 90%.
The yellow segment represents the next 9%; the part from 90% to 99%.
The pale blue section represents the last, and highest 1% of the people and how much wealth they control.

Now if you read the article, and go down to where it talks about the Distribution of US Household Wealth, you can see that the top .1% of the people hold 14% of the wealth, and the top 1% holds 31% of the wealth (14 + 17 = 31). These numbers are going up, as the rich get richer and control a greater and greater portion of the wealth of the nation.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wealth-distribution-in-america/