“In America the share of national income going to the top .01% (some 16,000 families) has risen from just over 1% in 1980 to almost 5% now—an even bigger slice than the top .01% got in the Gilded Age.”

the 400 wealthiest Americans took home an hourly “wage” of $97,000 in 2009 (the last year for which the IRS has provided data)10—a rate that has more than doubled since 1992.