Suzy Khimm plucks five charts out of today's Census report. She captions:
The average incomes of all income brackets have all sunk over the course of the recession, but the downturn dealt more of a blow to the middle-class and the poor. In 2010, the top 10 percent of wage-earners made as much as they did in 2002. By contrast, the 50th percentile hasn’t earned this little since 1996, and the bottom 10 percent since 1994. The last decade has set everyone back, but the richest Americans have been better protected than others. That being said, don’t blame the recession for the inequality gap itself: that trend started, during the mid- to late-1990s.
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