Reply #161: Don't quote stats unless you know what you're doing:

[Political Heretic]

Note that on Average, between 1989 and 2001, income inequality rose between the top fifth and the bottom four fifths.

Furthermore, wages stagnated.


We had the decoupling of productivity and wages for the first time in the 20th century back around the start of Reagan, and we've never gotten that back sense. You see the disconnect between the growth of productivity and wages here, but if you break this out into income categories, what you see is wages stagnant for the middle-class and wages in decline for the working poor.