Hedge-fund managers have made so much money for themselves that they are in the top percent of the one percent.
According to the University, the total income of the top 20 percent of the rural households was 10.19 times higher than the bottom 20 percent and that the wealth gap in west China was bigger than in the east of the country.
Don't forget, in the decade before the crash, 90 percent of the gains went to the top 10 percent, 43 percent to the top 1 percent, and we also paid -- got most of the tax cuts.
Within this group of people is an even smaller and wealthier subset of people, 1 percent of the top, or .01 percent of the entire nation.
It also uses legislative activity to address current concerns over how wealth is distributed in the US. The net wealth of the top one percent comprises of about 35 percent of all privately held wealth in the US, while the top 20 percent hold 85 percent.
Federal officials said at the time that Morris had an IQ of 133, in the top two percent of the population.
The top five percent of the population paid 61.0 percent of all income taxes, up from 34.9 percent in 1980.
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We're proposing to limit itemized deductions for the top -- under the top 5 percent of taxpayers back to the rate that applied when Ronald Reagan was President.
What is concretely possible is that we extend tax cuts for virtually 98 percent of the American people, allow rates to raise for the top 2 percent of earners, and address the loopholes and deductions in a way that achieves the kind of revenue package that we need for a broader deficit reduction goal.
At a time when the share of national income flowing to the top 1 percent of people in this country has climbed to levels last seen in the 1920s, those same folks are paying taxes at one of the lowest rates in 50 years.
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There was so much money involved, and some of it even trickled down to us, a small amount that allowed us to live among the top one-percent of the wealthiest in the world.
One approach is to get more students in front of top teachers by identifying the top 25 percent of teachers and asking them to take on four or five more students.
For the sixth year, Taylor gave his entertaining talk on the state of the top 10 percent of U.S. households in the Survey of Affluence and Wealth in America report.
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On one side, the top one percent of the firms (those employing more than 500 workers) are doing well.
The top one percent of the income distribution captured fully 52% of the income gains during that 15-year period.
In 1997, the Texas legislature instituted the Top Ten Percent Law granting students in the top ten percent of their class automatic admission to any state university.
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In the same period, the share of income going to the top 1 percent of workers has doubled.
That is, the share of taxes paid by the top 10 percent of taxpayers exceeds their share of national income by 35 percent.
At the very top - the top 10th of one percent - the multiple was far higher.
Some 34 percent said the global spread of AIDS should be the top concern, and 23 percent said Africa should be the main focus of aid efforts.
The remaining top 20 percent of the screen is reserved for access to the system menu.
Apple also became the world's top smartphone vendor, with a market share of 23.8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2011, and the top smartphone vendor for 2011 as a whole, with a 19 percent market share.
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On a scale of 1 to 100, the top forecaster was correct 68 percent of the time and the bottom guru was correct only 22 percent of the time.
Considering that 40 percent of new jobs come from the top-performing one percent of companies in any given year, this bill could unlock possibilities that go far beyond the bottom line for corporations and institutions.
And the President will not sign under any circumstances an extension of tax cuts for the top 2 percent of American earners.
The top 5 percent of taxpayers will continue to pay 60 percent of the income tax the nation collects.
Sadly, the big money in our country is made by the top one tenth of 1 percent or the 99.9 percentile.
They have income that puts them in the top 1 percent of earners in the country, and they have -parents both have graduate degrees.
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Figure 1 illustrates how poorly the top 25 percent of funds for the 5 years, ending in September 2006, compared to their peer group performance over the next 5 years, ending in September 2011.
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