[Peace-discuss] The 50%

[David Green]

 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.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/01/20/why-trump-won-the-50-percenters-have-spoken/
The basic charts from their findings are here:
http://equitablegrowth.org/research-analysis/economic-growth-in-the-united-states-a-tale-of-two-countries/
The paper is here: 
http://gabriel-zucman.eu/files/PSZ2016.pdf
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.
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%.




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