How The Richest Get Even Richer
March 16th, 2012 10:07 am National Memo StaffDavid Cay Johnston reveals how the super-rich have pocketed the vast majority of the gains from the economic recovery, in his new column, “The Richest Get Richer:”
The aftermaths of the Great Recession and the Great Depression produced sharply different changes in U.S. incomes that tell us a lot about tax and economic policy.
The 1934 economic rebound was widely shared, with strong income gains for the vast majority, the bottom 90 percent.
