Income gap between rich and poor widest in a century

[malaise]

If you feel you're falling behind in the income race, it's not just your imagination. The wealth gap between the top 1% and the bottom 99% in the U.S. is as wide as it's been in nearly 100 years, a new study finds.

For starters, between 1993 and 2012, the real incomes of the 1% grew 86.1%, while those of the 99% grew 6.6%, according to the study, based on Internal Revenue Service statistics examined by economists at UC Berkeley, the Paris School of Economics and Oxford University.

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/sep/11/nation/la-na-nn-income-inequality-20130910

http://elsa.berkeley.edu/~saez/saez-UStopincomes-2012.pdf

[winter is coming]

1. "between 1993 and 2012, the real incomes of the 1% grew 86.1%, while those of the 99% grew 6.6%"

That should be on billboards, followed by the question, "Who are the takers?"

[99th_Monkey]

2. Do a kick-starter

http://www.kickstarter.com/

[liberal N proud]

3. Do the poor still have anything?

The gap will not stop growing until the rich have it all and everyone has nothing.

The term No pot to piss in will come back to fashion if it is not already.

The rich have a motto: "I want it all and I want it now"