Top 1%
Posted December 18, 2014
For 50 years after the Great Depression, Vermont’s gap between rich and poor shrank. The share of total income going to the top 1 percent declined from 14 percent in 1929 to 6 percent in 1981. But since then, we’ve wiped out our progress toward income equality. The share going to the wealthiest 1 percent peaked at over 20 percent in 2006.
