The Wall Street Journal has a new interactive infographic online showing the growing disparity between CEO’s and laborers, and the amount of taxes each pays.
Over the past 30 years, chief executives, Wall Street bankers and traders, law-firm partners and such amassed ever-greater incomes, while the incomes of factory workers, teachers, office managers and others in the middle grew much more slowly. In 2007, the top 1% of U.S. families accounted for 23.5% of all personal income in the U.S., according to economists .
via Income Gap Shrinks in Slump at the Expense of the Wealthy – WSJ.com.
