Income Shares: The Rich Get
a Bigger Slice
The share of income
going to the 90 percent of Americans shrank between
1970 and 2000.
Among the top 10
percent, the higher a person ranked the more one's
slice of the economic pie grew
Source:
Perfectly Legal by David Cay Johnston
|
|
Bottom
90%
|
90 to
95
|
95 to
99
|
99 to
99.5
|
99.5
to 99.9 |
99.9
to 99.99 |
Top
13,360
Households
|
1970
|
67.1%
|
11.1%
|
12.7%
|
2.8%
|
3.5% |
1.8%
|
1.0%
|
2000
|
52.0%
|
11.1%
|
15.2%
|
4.1%
|
6.6% |
5.9%
|
5.1%
|
Change
|
-22.5%
|
.4%
|
19.5%
|
47.0%
|
90.0% |
227.0%
|
412.0%
|
|
