Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez created a data series that depicts the share of total income earned by the top 1% of income earners in the U.S. To do this, they used IRS tax data. Their chart (below) was a large jump in the share of the top 1% from 1987-89. Did inequality increase that much all in two years? What happened?
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