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Trends in Income and Wealth Inequality

Pew Research Center · Juliana Menasce Horowitz and Richard Fry · last updated

Most Americans say there’s too much economic inequality in the United States these days. To understand how people’s financial circumstances have changed in recent decades, we looked at trends in income and wealth for lower-, middle- and upper-income households since 2000. Income and wealth have grown for each group. But the gains have been greatest […]

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