Income inequality in the United States continues to increase. New IRS tax data from Emmanuel Saez, a researcher at U.C. Berkeley who studies income inequality — often collaborating with French economist Thomas Piketty — shows that income inequality between the top 1 percent of income earners and the bottom 99 percent increased again in 2015. Even though the 1 percent are still doing better than the rest of us, seeing 7.7 percent income growth in 2015, there is a little bit of good news i...
Income inequality in the United States continues to increase. New IRS tax data from Emmanuel Saez, a researcher at U.C. Berkeley who studies income inequality — often collaborating with French economist Thomas Piketty — shows that income inequality between the top 1 percent of income earners and the bottom 99 percent increased again in 2015. Even though the 1 percent are still doing better than the rest of us, seeing 7.7 percent income growth in 2015, there is a little bit of good news i...
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