The income gap between the rich and the poor is larger in the U.S. than in most other industrialized countries.  Last year we posted data about the percent of total U.S. income that went to the top 1% of earners (23% as of 2006). The graph below, recently updated to 2007, shows the percent of … Continue reading U.S. Income Earned By The Top 1/100th of A Percent (1913 to 2007)