Income disparities are so pronounced that Americas top 10 percent now average more than nine times as much income as the bottom 90 percent according to data analyzed by UC Berkeley economist Emmanuel Saez. The 2019 real median incomes of family households and nonfamily households increased 73 percent and 62 percent from their respective 2018 estimates Figure 1 and Table A-1. Usa The Chartbook Of Economic Inequality Over the last 30 years wage inequality in the United States has increased substantially with the overall level of inequality now approaching the extreme level that prevailed prior to the Great Depression. Income inequality in america . Steins April 15 2019 Abstract. 2 Income inequality in the US. Households have steadily brought in a larger share of the. The median black household persistently has less than 15. This paper introduces a new long-run data set based on archival data from historical waves of the Survey of Consumer Finances. Growing inequalities betwe