Long Term Trend for Income Distribution

Not only has the bottom 90 percent been losing ground for thirty years, but the richest of the rich are pulling away from the ordinary rich.

Update (March 26):  Real income in 2011 for the bottom 90 percent dropped to the lowest level since 1966.  That amounts to an increase of only $59 to an adjusted gross income of $30,437 per taxpayer.  David Cay Johnston has another way of visualizing how mean real incomes have changed over 45 years.