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Top 1.0% of earners see wages up 157.8% since 1979

Over the last four decades since 1979, the top 1.0% saw their wages grow by 157.8% and those in the top 0.1% had wages grow more than twice as fast, up 340.7%. In contrast those in the bottom 90% had annual wages grow by 23.9% from 1979 to 2018.

— source epi.org | Dec 25, 2019

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