Between 1960 and 1980, the share going to the top 1% declined, but the decline is modest.
Academic analyses that zero in on the growing share of income going to the top 0.1% reinforce that.
In the same period, the share of income going to the top 1 percent of workers has doubled.
Some of this inequality was addressed by the Labour governments through tax credits and the minimum wage, but the share of income going to the top 1% continued to rise inexorably, driven by the financial sector.
Comparing income before and after taxes, CBO says the tax system cut the share of income going to the top 20% by about seven percentage points in 2007, most of that coming from the top 1%.
Women aren't as worried about the pay gap as they were five years ago, says Carol Gallagher , president of the Executive Women's Alliance and author of Going To The Top: A Road Map for Success from America's Leading Women Executives.
The Governor says that he is not going to allow the top 5 percent -- I believe is what he said -- to have a tax cut, that it will all even out, that what he wants to do is give that tax cut to the middle class.
But going back to the top of your question, it is not for us to decide the leaders of other countries.
But that doesn't necessarily mean it's going to capture the top prize.
But Prozac was going to lose the top spot among Eli Lilly's (nyse: LLY - news - people) drugs anyway.
We need to do a better job as an industry of merchandising the field for graduates if we are going to compete for the top young talent and ensure the future of our profession.
If we want a robust government, a good portion of the money for that is going to come from the top earners.
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To many, the Irish skipper has done it all after leading his country to that long-awaited Grand Slam last year, going on to win the top club honour in the game with Leinster's Heineken Cup triumph.
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We're not going to, in any way, give a tax break to the well-to-do folks, even though he said during the Republican primary he was going to cut taxes for the top 1 percent.
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The 23-year-old won her first grand slam title in Melbourne last January before going on to top the rankings and become the WTA Tour's leading prize money winner for 2012.
In the 1980s, the owners were found to have colluded to depress the market for free agents and to make quiet agreements to stop going after the top players from other teams.
And we're also going to see at the other end of the spectrum one or two people at the top who are going to go on to be the most serious candidates.
And QPR will take plenty of comfort from the fact that the team top of the second tier of English football going into January has won promotion to the top flight in all but two of the last 19 years.
"I wanted to show it was going to start at the top, " Ms. Parker says.
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Irving, a dynamite young point guard who played only a handful of college games at Duke before going to Cleveland as the top 2011 draft pick, is the perfect example.
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I'm sorry for him, but he's going to be in the top five very soon if he keeps playing like this and he has a good chance of winning Wimbledon.
Show the investors why you and your company are going to make it to the top and why you are the person to take it there.
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The return on investment of going to Harvard or another top-10 business school has remained relatively high, but the return on going to lesser schools is very questionable.
He said research in the USA had shown sending information packs to bright low-income students boosted the proportion of them going to top colleges.
Of all of the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near if not at the top as history unfolds and we look back.
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True, federal income tax rates are progressive, with rates going to 35% for the top earners.
Are we going to double down on the top-down economic policies that helped to get us into this mess?
My track record is far better when it comes to contestants, and in my next post, I am going to pick the winner and Top four finalists of American Idol Season 12.
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Halfpenny has enjoyed a meteoric rise to the top after going from playing semi-pro club rugby a year ago to earning the call to face South Africa this summer.
After helping the Tigers to promotion to the top flight for the first time in their history, Pedersen is going back to his homeland for family reasons.
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