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- The logarithmic scale shows how wealth has increased for all percentile groups, though moreso for wealthier people. (en)
- The average personal wealth of people in the top 1% is more than a thousand times that of people in bottom 50%. (en)
- Relative income growth, organized by percentile classes, normalized to 1970 levels. Graph accounts for both income growth, and the hidden decline in the progressivity of the tax code at the top, the wealthiest earners having seen their effective tax rates steadily fall. (en)
- A 1916 ad for a vocational school appealed to Americans' belief in the possibility of self-betterment, as well as threatening economic insecurity through lack of education. (en)
- Same data as adjacent chart, but plotted on logarithmic scale to show absolute dollar amounts. Data shows a range of three orders of magnitude—a ~1000-fold difference. (en)
- Ivy-Plus university admissions rates vary with the income of the students' parents, with the acceptance rate of the top 0.1% income percentile being almost twice as much as other students. (en)
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