Once again, there has been a lot of class warfare happening in recent decades but it's been a war against the middle class and poor. This has to stop. Now.
That top 1 percent saw its income skyrocket by 275 percent. Those between the 80th and 99th percentile--that is, the top 20 percent, excluding the very top 1 percent--also did pretty well, seeing their income rise by 65 percent. Income for the bottom 20 percent, meanwhile, grew by just 18 percent.
