Evolution of the Distribution of Wealth
Lucas EavesPublished: 31 Oct, 2012
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The Occupy Wall Street movement highlighted the disparity of wealth between the rich and the poor in America, with the now famous gap between the 1% and the 99%.
This simplification has been criticized. However, the reality is that in the past 30 years, the percentage of wealth owned by a small percentage of the population has increase extensively.
This infographic, provided by Forensic Accounting, analyses the evolution of the distribution of wealth and shows that today 1% do really possess most of the wealth in the United States.
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