Wednesday, November 2, 2011

CHARTS: Our Economy vs. Their Economy - The 99% vs The 1%

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The anti-Occupy forces keep whining that there's nothing wrong with the way economy is currently divided - but there are piles of fact-based charts that say, once again, they're wrong.

It's a disgusting fact that a huge share of the nation's economic growth over the past 30 years has gone to the top one-hundredth of one percent, who now make an average of $27 million per household. The average income for the bottom 90 percent of us? $31,244. As the chart below displays.


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Credit: Mother Jones

Meanwhile, on Wall Street, over the last thirty years, things just keep on getting better for the top 1% - dDespite a minor drop in their average salaries when they almost destroyed the entire world economy in 2008.


Credit: New York Times


Check out the other eleven charts that further prove - the 99% are right. It's the inequality, stupid.

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