claim: "we now have the greatest income inequality since the great depression."
author: john edwards
evidence_1: dec 5, 2013 ... and according to his research, u.s. income inequality has been increasing  steadily since the 1970s, and now has reached levels not seen since 1928. ...  payments, unemployment benefits and other government transfer payments,  which are more substantial today than before the great depression. in 1928 ...
evidence_2: aug 30, 2017 ... most people in wisconsin made less than $50,000 a year on average, while the  top 1 percent brought in around $933,000 each year. dresser said the state hasn' t seen such striking levels of inequity since the great depression. "we're on this  upward escalator of inequality," she said. "the u.s. is more ...
evidence_3: oct 22, 2010 ... “we need to decide as a society whether this increase in income inequality is  efficient and acceptable and, if not, what mix of institutional reforms should be ...  the nobel prize-winning economist, said that before 2008, when he spoke of  inequality approaching levels last seen before the great depression, ...
evidence_4: income inequality in the united states has increased significantly since the  1970s after several decades of stability, meaning the share of the nation's income  received by higher income households has increased. this trend is evident with  income measured both before taxes (market income) as well as after taxes and ...
evidence_5: nov 10, 2014 ... wealth inequality in the us is reaching its most extreme point since just before  the start of the great depression in 1929, according to a new economic analysis.  ... now, the richest americans have a share of the country's wealth almost big  enough to rival those in the late 1920s, according to a new study.