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7. How about income distribution in 1947?

I found an interesting census bureau publication The Changing Shape of the Nation’s Income Distribution 1947-1998 that was published in 2000.

http://www.census.gov/prod/2000pubs/p60-204.pdf

Since 1947, the Census Bureau has employed a commonly used measure, the Gini coefficient (also known as the index of income concentration), to measure family income inequality. With two exceptions, the Gini coefficient decreased between 1947 and 1968. During this period, the Gini for families indicated a decrease in income inequality of 7.5 (±2.1) percent.2 Since 1968, however, this trend has reversed. Income inequality for families, measured by the Gini coefficient, increased between 1968 and 1998 (see Figure 1). The net effect over the entire 1947-1998 period is an increase in family income inequality

The document has detailed information about the years 1968-1998, including distribution of household income by fifths from lowest to highest and Men/Women income disparities.