Ask almost anyone the most important economic facts about income distribution in America, and you are almost certain to hear that income distribution has worsened dramatically over the past generation and over the past decade in particular, with people at the top getting a bigger fraction of total personal income.
On Wednesday President Obama declared that "increasing inequality is most pronounced in our country, and it challenges the very essence of who we are as a people."
But measuring inequality is not simple.
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