Here's the story of income inequality in America over the past 40 years. Hover over each line to identify household income, and click through to see the percentage growth over the past 40 years.

Finally, I saw a graph presenting the last 100 years in three parts: (1) Low taxes and low growth between 1913 and 1933; (2) high taxes and high growth between 1933 and 1980; and (3) low taxes and ...

see the largest income growth. +6% 5% The poor and middle class used to see the largest income growth. Many Americans can’t remember anything other than an economy with skyrocketing inequality ...

Income inequality is a myth.. That was the takeaway from five economic studies collected by James Pethokoukis that found income gains were shared fairly equally in the 30 years before the Great ...

The graph shows that inequality significantly increases the probability of being in poverty; and that inequality significantly increases poverty intensity.

Inequality in income and wealth is a troubling headwind for the American economy, it's getting worse, and it's a real danger looming in our political future. Keep up to date with Michael Hiltzik.

Inequalities that use ≤ or ≥ symbols are plotted with a solid line to show that the line is included in the region. For example, this graph shows the inequality \(x \textless -1\).