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Andrea Riquier, USA TODAY Updated December 4, 2024 at 12:33 PM Homeownership has long been known as a tool for building wealth and lifting Americans into the middle class.
As of 2007, the richest 1% held about 38% of all privately held wealth in the United States. [14] While the bottom 90% held 73.2% of all debt. [72] According to The New York Times, the richest 1 percent in the United States now own more wealth than the bottom 90 percent. [78]
The wealth analysis draws from the 2022 Survey of Consumer Finance, which found that household wealth in America swelled at a record pace during the pandemic. From 2019 to 2022, the median net ...
It’s no secret that there’s a large wealth gap in the United States, and it’s been growing larger in recent years.Federal Reserve data show that as of June 2023, the top 1% of U.S ...
In 2014, median wealth in the United States was $44,900, which put the United States in 19th place, behind many other developed countries. [50] In 2015, median wealth in the United States was $55,775. [51] The United States has one of the widest rich-poor gaps of any high-income nation today, and that gap continues to grow. [52]
The United States has the highest level of income inequality in the Western world, according to a 2018 study by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. The United States has forty million people living in poverty, and more than half of these people live in "extreme" or "absolute" poverty.
However, the wealth gap has only widened. In 2022, the Urban Institute reported the average Black household had roughly $211,000 in wealth, while the average Hispanic household had roughly $227,544.
The percentage share of total income owned by the top 1% fell to 16% during the post-9/11 recession but then re-rose to its 1998 level by 2008. In 2008, the wealth gap in terms of percentage of total income in the United States between the top 1% and 5% was 7% and the gap between the top 1% and top 10% was 9%.