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The Rich Got Richer Under Obama

Inequality is increasing under Obama because the incomes of the top 20% of income earners are increasing, while the incomes for everyone else have been declining. That is right, Progressives, what all your huffing and puffing has achieved is the rich getting richer, and the poor getting poorer. -Peter Ferrara

[Jul 2016]: The incomes of the 1 percent grew 37 percent between 2009 and 2015. They captured more than half of all the income growth in the country over that period, leaving just 48 percent to spread out among the bottom 99 percent of families. The top 10 percent of American earners took home more than half of all income last year, the highest share ever except for 2012.

  And in fact, income inequality is now at the highest level the country has ever recorded in its entire history. -Bryce Covert Go To Site

Inequality is increasing under Obama because the incomes of the top 20% of income earners are increasing, while the incomes for everyone else have been declining. That is right, Progressives, what all your huffing and puffing has achieved is the rich getting richer, and the poor getting poorer. -Peter Ferrara Go To Site

One simple measure of inequality is to look at the ratio of average to median, or midpoint, wages... From 2001 through 2008, during the Bush presidency, this inequality measurement grew on average 0.28 percentage points per year. From 2009 through 2012, during the first term of President Obama, the same ratio grew on average 1.24 percentage points per year. That’s about four and a half times faster than under Bush. -Anna Bernasek Go To Site

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Sept 2015: America's top 400 billionaires are now richer than ever, boasting a record-smashing combined wealth of $2.34trillion, up $50billion from a year ago, according to the latest issue of Forbes Magazine... The cost of admission to the 2015 list was the highest ever at $1.7billion, up from $1.55billion a year ago.

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Most Americans' incomes continued to fall last year, but the richest 20 percent saw theirs rise, a new Labor Department report showed Thursday. In fresh data that adds fire to a growing debate over income inequality, the department said that Americans on average saw income decline for the second straight year in the 12 months to June 2014. The average pre-tax income fell 0.9 percent from the same period a year earlier, to $64,432. But broken down into quintiles, those in the top 20 percent of incomes saw their money stream grow by 0.9 percent to $166,048 on average.

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A Mexican telecom mogul who holds the title of world's richest man, and one of President Obama's top donors are both getting even richer from the U.S. government program that supplies so-called "Obamaphones" to the poor. Carlos Slim, who has an estimated net worth of $70 billion, owns a controlling stake in TracFone, which makes $10 per phone for each device it provides to poor Americans.

Though a raft of President Obama's policies—such as expanding the earned-income tax credit and food stamps, and extending unemployment benefits—have been designed to more fairly distribute wealth, inequality has unambiguously risen on his watch. Those at the top have seen gains, especially from the booming stock market, while middle-class real incomes have fallen by about $1,800 since the recovery started in June 2009. --Stephen Moore, Richard Vedder Go To Site

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The U.S. Census Bureau figures released yesterday underscored the struggles of American families in a sputtering economic recovery. The report also showed the income gap between rich and poor people grew to the widest in more than 40 years in 2011 as the poverty rate remained at almost a two-decade high.

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In 2010, 37 percent of these additional earnings went to just the top 0.01 percent, a teaspoon-size collection of about 15,000 households with average incomes of $23.8 million. These fortunate few saw their incomes rise by 21.5 percent. The bottom 99 percent received a microscopic $80 increase in pay per person in 2010, after adjusting for inflation. The top 1 percent, whose average income is $1,019,089, had an 11.6 percent increase in income.

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The gulf between the richest 1 percent and the rest of America is the widest it's been since the Roaring '20s. The very wealthiest Americans earned more than 19 percent of the country's household income last year - their biggest share since 1928, the year before the stock market crash.

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The richest Americans are the exception to the general trend of income stagnation during the Obama administration. For 95th-percentile households, adjusted incomes were up 8.2% in 2015 from 2008. George H.W. Bush, his son and Gerald Ford were the three recent presidents under which 95th-percentile households Americans didn’t see income gains.