Excellent article and graphs about the concentration of wealth and opportunity in America among an ever narrowing segment of the population by Phil of Phil's Stock World
http://philsbackupsite.wordpress.com/2010/08/26/who-rules-america/
here is an interesting excerpt from this excellent article:
"Go ahead, do the math – adding up the total wages of the bottom 90% against the total wages of the top 10% give you a real idea of what a “fair and just” system we’re participating in:
14,836 people earn $17,271,381 in average annual income ($256Bn),
133,525 earn $2,569,388 ($343Bn),
593,444 earn $760,680 ($451Bn),
741,805 earn $393,583($292Bn),
5,934,440 earn $188,513($1,119Bn) and
7,418,050 earn $117,688($873Bn)
while the the wages of the bottom 90% are
133,524,900 people earning an average of just $30,173 ($4,029Bn).
So interesting fact number one is that the 13M people in the top 10% earn (not including capital gains, which make up the bulk of their true income) salaries of $3.3Tn while the other 133M schlubs earn $4Tn...."
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