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From: http://www.inequality.org/factsfr.html
Distribution of Net Worth in the U.S., 1998:
Top 1% of population: 38.1% of wealth
Next 4%: 21.3% of wealth
Next 6%: 11.5% of wealth
Next 10%: 12.5% of wealth
Next 20%: 11.9% of wealth
Next 20%: 4.5% of wealth
Next 40%: 0.2% of wealth
[There's nothing wrong with your screen. What follows is a graph that displays how lopsided our society is. Scroll down along the blue line (which line represents, by the way, the wealth of the richest 1% of the U.S. population).]
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next 6%,
next 10%,
next 20%,
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poorest 40% of U.S. population
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