<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485707468487_3694"> I summarized the findings of the recent Piketty/Saez/Zucman data at Counterpunch. This will also be published at some point in the News-Gazette.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485707468487_3695"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485707468487_3696" dir="ltr"><a id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485707468487_3729" href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/01/20/why-trump-won-the-50-percenters-have-spoken/">http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/01/20/why-trump-won-the-50-percenters-have-spoken/</a></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485707468487_4100" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485707468487_4113" dir="ltr">The basic charts from their findings are here:</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485707468487_4099" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485707468487_3836" dir="ltr"><a id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485707468487_3835" href="http://equitablegrowth.org/research-analysis/economic-growth-in-the-united-states-a-tale-of-two-countries/">http://equitablegrowth.org/research-analysis/economic-growth-in-the-united-states-a-tale-of-two-countries/</a></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485707468487_4098" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485707468487_4114" dir="ltr">The paper is here: </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485707468487_4115" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485707468487_4061" dir="ltr"><a id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485707468487_4116" href="http://gabriel-zucman.eu/files/PSZ2016.pdf">http://gabriel-zucman.eu/files/PSZ2016.pdf</a></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485707468487_3994" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485707468487_3993" dir="ltr">You can go down to pages 42-43 for the basic tables on what has happened to the bottom 50% over the past 35 years, compared to the decades following WW11.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485707468487_4079" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485707468487_4019" dir="ltr">It's worth noting, beyond this income data, that the wealth data goes as follows: bottom 90% has 20% of wealth, top 10% has 80%, top 1% has 40%, top. .1% has 20%, top .01% has 10%.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485707468487_3992" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485707468487_3995"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485707468487_3996"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485707468487_3898"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485707468487_3792"><br></div></div></body></html>