Income Gap Triples Between Very Rich and Everyone Else in last 3 decades

The gaps in after-tax income between the richest 1 percent of Americans and the middle and poorest fifths of the country more than tripled between 1979 and 2007 (the period for which these data are available), according to data the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issued. Taken together with prior research, the new data suggest greater income concentration at the top of the income scale than at any time since 1928. Click here for report or here: http://www.cbpp.org/files/6-25-10inc.pdf