![]() EPI research shows that in New York, Florida, Connecticut, Nevada, and Wyoming, the top 1 percent’s share of overall income tops the 1928 overall national record of 23.9 percent. In five states we’ve already surpassed Gilded Age levels of inequality. The post–Great Recession recovery in top incomes-combined with unequal income growth since the 1970s-has America hurtling back toward levels of inequality that characterized the Gilded Age of the 1920s. In eight states plus the District of Columbia, that ratio of top-to-bottom incomes is greater than the national ratio of 26.3-to-1. ![]() Measured by the ratio of top 1 percent to bottom 99 percent income in 2015, every state has a sizable gap between the fortunate few at the top and everybody else. Rising inequality is not just a story of those on Wall Street, in Hollywood, or in the Silicon Valley reaping outsized rewards.
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