claim: "today the top 1 percent earn a higher share of our national income than any year since 1928."
author: ted cruz
evidence_1: jan 21, 2015 ... he said that the economy's only working for "the 1 percent," and that "the rich and  powerful" have "gotten fat and happy." ... today, the top 1 percent earn a higher  share of our national income than any year since 1928.
evidence_2: jun 18, 2015 ... sanders recently tweeted that the income inequality is wider than it's been ... else  in america is wider today than at any time since the 1920s. ... 1 percent earn a  higher share of our national income than any year ... the data compiled showed  that 1928 and 2012 were the two years where the top 1 percent of ...
evidence_3: sep 11, 2013 ... the gulf between the richest 1 percent and the rest of america is the widest ...  more than 19 percent of the country's household income last year—their biggest  share since 1928, the year before the stock market crash. ... last year in part  because they cashed in stock holdings to avoid higher ... trending now.
evidence_4: jan 22, 2015 ... ... senator respond to the state of the union and almost felt the need to adjust my  television picture. ... today, the top 1 percent earn a higher share of the national  income than any year since 1928. ... but working men and women across the  country, we have the lowest labor force participation since 1978.”.
evidence_5: dec 5, 2013 ... my account ... u.s. income inequality, on rise for decades, is now highest since  1928 ... which are more substantial today than before the great depression. in  1928, the top 1% of families received 23.9% of all pretax income, while ... a  similar share (66%) of americans said the gap between rich and poor ...