America's Wealth Inequality is a Crime. [View All]

[JanMichael]

United for a Fair Economy has a lot on this touchy subject: http://www.ufenet.org/research/wealth_charts.html

1998 breakdown, it's worse today BTW:



http://www.therationalradical.com/dsep/wealth-distribution.htm

"The top 1% own 38.1% of the wealth in the country, the next 4% own 21.3%, and the next 5% own 11.5%. That is to say, the top 10% of the country owns 70.9% of the wealth of this nation!"

So 90% has only 29.1% of the nations wealth? Wow. That's an amazing tolerance.

This is a history of inequality:



Notice how there were periods of growing Equality? Say Bye-Bye to them.