Today, the share of wealth held by the richest 0.1% is currently at its peak, & since 1990 their total share of wealth has grown from from 9% to 14% in 2023 (the largest increase across all wealth brackets.)

In fact, the richest 0.1% and 1% were the only groups to see their… pic.twitter.com/VPKhCqxfo8

— ChudsOfTikTok 𓅜 🐀 (@ChudsOfTikTok) February 22, 2024

728 billionaires hold more wealth than half of American households. If that doesn’t tell you we’re in a second Gilded Age, I don’t know what will. pic.twitter.com/QtwVRWUFUs

— Robert Reich (@RBReich) October 11, 2023

The CEO-to-worker pay gap at America’s largest public companies is now 399-to-1.

In 1965, the ratio was 20-to-1.

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

— Robert Reich (@RBReich) February 10, 2023

By the end of 2018, the 25 richest Americans were worth $1.1 trillion, as much as the combined wealth of 14.3M ordinary wage earners.
The 2018 personal federal tax bill for the 25 richest: $1.9 billion.
The bill for the wage earners: $143 billion.https://t.co/6LHmJ4r7Ju

— ProPublica (@propublica) July 12, 2021

Our publication of this tax data comes at a possibly pivotal moment in America’s long, often contentious debate about the fairness of our tax system. The secret tax files offer new, factual evidence for lawmakers considering such changes.https://t.co/nIpkAw4UZp

— ProPublica (@propublica) June 12, 2021

The median salary of an S&P 500 CEO is 185 times that of their median employee. Combine salary, stocks, bonuses, and benefits, and that pay ratio can skyrocket to 1,000-to-1.

So @Griffin's ready to ask the question you and Bernie Sanders are thinking: Is CEO pay too damn high? pic.twitter.com/cJhwyuwv8f

— The Recount (@therecount) June 11, 2021

The poorest half of this country has basically no meaningful share of the national wealth.

Striking chart today from the Federal Reserve. pic.twitter.com/XRSn0LgyKQ

— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) September 28, 2020

⚠ Global #inequality & growth #trend between 1980 & 2016:
📈 the top 1% captured 27% of total growth
📉 the bottom 50% captured 12% of total growth#elephantcurve pic.twitter.com/RdY2vvqTYV

— World Inequality Lab | WID.world (@WIL_inequality) March 11, 2020

In the midst of campaign season, it’s important to look squarely at what’s at stake. This article speaks to one of the disturbing long term trends that we as voters and citizens need to expect our government to address. https://t.co/m49rbES0i6

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) March 10, 2020

WEALTH INEQUALITY: The richest 1% controls more wealth now than at any time in more than 50 years. But what does wealth inequality really look like?@TonyDokoupil turned America’s economic pie into a real one and asked people a simple question: Who gets what? pic.twitter.com/scGPKcHbie

— CBS Mornings (@CBSMornings) January 31, 2020

The 26 richest people on Earth now own as much as the 3.8 billion who form the poorer *half* of the planet’s population.

Again, 26 people own as much as 3.8 billion people.

26 v. 3,800,000,000

— Robert Reich (@RBReich) January 19, 2020

The world's 500 wealthiest people gained $1.2 trillion this year, boosting their collective net worth 25% to $5.9 trillion https://t.co/Lc3FtogAb1

— Bloomberg (@business) December 27, 2019