Image: 2008 Top1percentUSA
Description: A chart demonstrating increases in the annual income of the top 1% of wealthy persons in the U.S. before economic crises.
Title: 2008 Top1percentUSA
Credit: Chart was made by User:RoyBoy, using data initially published as Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez (2003), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 118(1), 2003, 1-39. Data (and updates) available here and shown here: http://inequality.org/income-inequality More data sources: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/10/26/nyregion/the-new-gilded-age.html?ref=politics http://g-mond.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/topincomes
Author: User:RoyBoy.
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