What is even more startling than that is that the upper 0.1 of 1 percent, the upper 0.1 of the top 1 percent, representing about 13,000 households, reaped more than one-third of all the income growth of the last 20 years.
Harkin highlights income inequality and the disproportionate wealth accumulation by the top 0.1%.
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