claim: in 2007, "the top 1 percent of all income earners in the united states made 23.5 percent of all income," which is "more than the entire bottom 50 percent."
author: bernie sanders
evidence_1: dec 10, 2010 ... "mr. president, in the year 2007, the top 1 percent of all income earners in the  united states made 23.5 percent of all income," sanders said. "the top 1 percent  earned 23.5 percent of all income--more than the entire bottom 50 percent. that  is apparently not enough. the percentage of income going to the ...
evidence_2: feb 19, 2014 ... they find the share of income captured by the top 1 percent climbed from 9.9  percent in 1979 to 23.5 percent in 2007.3 the share of income earned by the top  ... by 2012, the most recent year for which national-level data are available, the  top 1 percent earned 22.5 percent of all income in the united states.
evidence_3: sep 9, 2009 ... during those years, the piketty-saez data also show, the inflation-adjusted  income of the top 1 percent of households grew more than ten times faster than ...  table 1: average income gains, adjusted for inflation, 2002-2007. dollar  increase. percent increase. average annual increase. bottom 90 percent.
evidence_4: dec 22, 2014 ... top 50 percent of all taxpayers paid 97.2 percent of all federal income taxes;  top 1 percent paid 38.1 percent; and bottom 90 percent paid 29.7 percent of all  federal income ... the top 1 percent's average effective tax rate for 2012 of 22.8  percent was slightly lower than that of 2011 (23.5 percent).
evidence_5: sep 3, 2013 ... the top percentile income share from 23.5 to 18.1 percent (figure 2). average  real income for the bottom 99% also fell sharply by 11.6%, also by far the largest  two-year decline since the great depression. this drop of 11.6% more than  erases the 6.8% income gain from 2002 to 2007 for the bottom 99%.