Graph showing bottom 90% of incomes stagnant while top 1% quadruples since 1979….
Graph showing bottom 90% of incomes stagnant while top 1% quadruples since 1979.
This is US data, but in a global economy I imagine the UK figures will be quite similar.
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The following comes from the Real World Economic Review blog and shows the percentage growth in income for three groups in the USA from 1979 to 2007.