The study, released by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), found that the average after-tax real income of the top one percent of the nation's households grew by 275% between 1979 and 2007 - about seven times greater than the increase in income by the remaining 99 percent over the same period.
And the income of the poorest 20% of the nation's earners grew by a mere 18% during that period, according to the report, which had been requested by the senior Democratic and Republican members on the Senator Finance Committee several years ago. That was less than one percent per year.
The report – the latest in a series of private or non-profit studies that confirm a sharp rise in income and wealth inequality over the past generation – came as a new New York Times/CBS News poll showed stronger-than-expected popular support for the "Occupy" movement, which has spread to dozens of cities across the country.
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