Via Think Progress:
"In 2010, as
the nation slowly
ground its way from
Great Recession to
recovery, 93 percent
of national income
gains went to t...
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Via Think Progress: "In 2010, as the nation slowly ground its way from Great Recession to recovery, 93 percent of national income gains went to the richest 1 percent of Americans. As Reuters's David Cay Johnston pointed out today, this makes the 2010 recovery quite different from the recovery that followed the Great Depression, as then, income gains were widely shared by the population, not concentrated at the very top...".* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down and notes the importance of the Occupy Wall Street movement.