• 1% own nearly twice as much as they did 15 years ago.
• 66% income growth after 2001 went to top 1%.
• 83% of all stocks are in the hands of 1%.
• 10% extract 50% of all national income.
• 50% of us own less than 1% of all income.
• 80% of us have only 7% of all cashable assets.
• Banks own more housing than all Americans put together.
• Only 5% of incomes matched rising housing costs since 1975.
• Executive pay jumped to 500 to 1 since 2000.
• Wall Street bonuses were up 17% over 2008.
• %16 more millionaires in 2009, to 7.8 million.
• 61% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.
• 36% have no retirement savings.
• 43% have less than $10,000 for retirement.
• 24% postponed retirement in the past year.
• ~1.4 million filed bankruptcy in 2009, up 32% over 2008.
• Finding a job has risen to a record 35.2 weeks.
• 40% are employed in low pay service jobs.
• Only federal pay is more than crushed private sector.
• 40 million are on food stamps; up to 43 million in 2011.
• 21% of children live below the poverty line – highest in 20 years.