Are You In the 1%?

Where you sit in the country's economic hierarchy?

Thanks to research from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a nonpartisan think tank, we now have an in-depth analysis of income distribution trends.  

   

160508 What You Have to Make to Be In the One Percent
via EPI.

 

EPI's website also has an interactive fact sheet that displays in-depth information state by state.  On those fact sheets visitors can find statistics including what percentage of income growth the top 1% has snagged since 1979 and 2007 and how much income has grown for the top 1% and the bottom 99% between 2009 and 2012.

In 17 states, all income growth between 2009 and 2012 went to the top 1%.

New York and Connecticut are the two most unequal states, with the average 1%-er earning over 48 times what the rest of those states' populations earn. West Virginia is the least unequal state with a still-huge income disparity of 16 to 1 on average.

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