| The top 1 percent of families in the United States took home, on average, 26.3 times as much income as the bottom 99 percent in 2015, according to a new EPI report by Estelle Sommeiller and Mark Price. In the report, the authors lay out the average incomes of the top 1 percent, the income required to be in the top 1 percent, and the gap between the top 1 percent and the bottom 99 percent in every state, 916 metro areas, and 3,061 counties. They find that from 2009 to 2015, the incomes of the top 1 percent grew faster than the incomes of the bottom 99 percent in 43 states and the District of Columbia, and the top 1 percent captured half or more of all income growth in nine states. Read the report » |
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