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A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on June 29, 2007.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that income inequality increased in the United States in 2005 with the top 1% of earners having roughly the same share of income as in 1928?

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Nonconstructive? no source?

I put the link source in there, so no clue why it was deleted.

https://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=Income_inequality_in_the_United_States&oldid=prev&diff=936531901

CBO reported that for the 1979-2007 period, after-tax income (adjusted for inflation) of households in the top 1 percent of earners grew by 275%, compared to 65% for the next 19%, just under 40% for the next 60% and 18% for the bottom fifth.The share of after-tax income received by the top 1% more than doubled from about 8% in 1979 to over 17% in 2007. The share received by the other 19 percent of households in the highest quintile edged up from 35% to 36%.^[1]^[2] The major cause was an increase in investment income. Capital gains accounted for 80% of the increase in market income for the households in the top 20% (2000–2007). Over the 1991–2000 period capital gains accounted for 45% of market income for the top 20%.

References

^ "The Distribution of Household Income and Federal Taxes 2007". Congressional Budget Office, US ；Government. October 2011.
^ Pear, Robert (2011-10-25). "Top Earners Doubled Share of Nation's Income, C.B.O. Says". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-10-10.

New CBO Gini has been released

The latest one, showing 2021, was recently released. Here it is, if anyone wants readers to see this information:

https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbo.gov%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fimages%2Ffull-reports%2F2024%2F60341-gini.png&tbnid=3TxeoZOZpdi03M&vet=1&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbo.gov%2Fpublication%2F60706&docid=e2V39swOzggPlM&w=825&h=451&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim%2Fm1%2F1&kgs=54c011a04c431569&shem=abme%2Ctrie&fbclid=IwY2xjawGMiZdleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHbh7CfWM-uF9KGv8UKzfDMA9eTxHnW9VDxWmqcYW6YKfhCTxl6Tm-0rtcw_aem_l-CV-YqIMGHgW4E8YJYl2w

~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Reverse Inquiry (talk • contribs) 20:25, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Out of date data

Glancing at this, it appears that a lot of the graphs only go to 2016. Can we replace them with equivalent graphs that show more recent data? Sonicsuns (talk) 03:27, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[CBO2007-1] "The Distribution of Household Income and Federal Taxes 2007". Congressional Budget Office, US ；Government. October 2011.

[NYTonCBO-2] Pear, Robert (2011-10-25). "Top Earners Doubled Share of Nation's Income, C.B.O. Says". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-10-10.

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