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The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850–1896 (2003). Brooks, David. Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There (2010) Burt, Nathaniel. The Perennial Philadelphians: The Anatomy of an American Aristocracy (1999).
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Many in America’s top 10% still feel ‘very poor’ but billionaire Warren Buffett says most folks ‘live better than John D Rockefeller' — 3 tips to create real wealth with the income you have
However, the top 1% income fell from 2007 to 2016, due to both the Great Recession and tax hikes on upper incomes during the Obama Administration. [2] [36] Share of U.S. income earned by top 1% households in 1979 (blue), 2007 (orange), and 2016 (green) (CBO data). The first date 1979 reflects the more egalitarian pre-1980 period, 2007 was the ...
Average and median household income by age group. In 2007, the top 20% of the wealthiest Americans possessed 80% of all financial assets. [14] In 2007, the richest 1% of the American population owned 35% of the country's total wealth, and the next 19% owned 51%.
During the same time period, the 60% of Americans in the middle of the income scale saw their income rise by 40%. From 1992 to 2007 the top 400 income earners in the U.S. saw their income increase 392% and their average tax rate reduced by 37%. [33] In 2009, the average income of the top 1% was $960,000 with a minimum income of $343,927. [34 ...
As the Tax Foundation writes, in 2014, the top 1% of taxpayers paid an average of 36.4% of their income in taxes — or about 5.6 percentage points less than in the 1950s.
From 1992–2007 the top 400 income earners in the U.S. saw their income increase 392% and their average tax rate reduced by 37%. [39] In 2009, the average income of the top 1% was $960,000 with a minimum income of $343,927. [34] [40] [41] In 2007 the top 1% had a larger share of total income than at any time since 1928. [34]