One pie chart showed the top twenty percent owning thirty-six percent of the country's wealth and the bottom twenty percent owning eleven percent of the wealth -- a society with moderate inequality.
In the USA, the top ten percent controls roughly seventy percent of the country's wealth.
In 2009, households headed by adults younger than 35 had 68 percent less wealth than households of their same-aged counterparts had in 1984.
According to Piketty's colleagues Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, the share of wealth of the top one percent was around 50percentt on the eve of the Great Depression.
Sanders obsesses about the concentration of wealth among the upper 2-percent, the increasingly unequal distribution of income, the diminished middle class, and the acceleration of poverty.
In a survey of 1,020 adult Californians, 54 percent reported being dissatisfied with the state's distribution of wealth and income, while 38percentt were satisfied.
Organized by a coalition of local and national nonprofit and community advocacy groups, the march was affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street protest and the 99 Percent movement, which stands against income inequality and the concentration of wealth.
A smaller majority (57 percent) in a 2011 Gallup poll said that the distribution of wealth in the country is unfair.
Indicators of wealth, status, and power include mean family income, mean housing values, percent owned housing, percent with a college degree or higher, percent employed in professional careers, percent with no high school diploma, and percent of families below the poverty line.
The middle-class continues to flounder under the weight of years of Republican policies -- policies that consigned wealth from ninety-nine percent of the American population, to the one-percent of wealthiest Americans.
Instead, the media spent most of that campaign talking about Mitt Romney's obscene wealth, the "47 percent" of voters who are lazy and want free shit, and dozens of now-obscure gaffes and talking points.
