Extremely Wealthy
Richest one percent now owns two-fifths of America's wealth, new study claims
The wealthiest one percent of American households own 40 percent of the country's wealth, according to a new paper by economist Edward N. Woolf. That share is higher than it has been at any point since at least 1962, according to Woolf's data, which comes from the federal Survey of…
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