claim: "the top one-tenth of 1 percent now owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent."
author: bernie sanders
evidence_1: jul 26, 2016 ... "it is not moral, it is not acceptable, and it is not sustainable that the top one-tenth  of 1 percent now owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent," he said  at the democratic national convention in philadelphia july 25. that statistic is a  classic sanders line — one we've looked at twice before.
evidence_2: america now has more wealth and income inequality than any major developed  country on earth, and the gap between the very rich and everyone else is wider  than at any time since the ... there is something profoundly wrong when the top  one-tenth of one percent owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent.
evidence_3: jul 29, 2015 ... "the top one-tenth of 1 percent" of americans "own almost as much wealth as the  bottom 90 percent." ... we also rated true a 2013 statement by the liberal one  wisconsin now advocacy group, which said the wealth of the wal-mart walton  family equalled the wealth of the bottom 42 percent of americans ...
evidence_4: nov 13, 2014 ... the chart shows how the top 0.1% of families now own roughly the same share of  wealth as the bottom 90%. the picture ... in contrast, the share of total us wealth  owned by the bottom 90% of families fell from a peak of 36% in the mid-1980s, to  23% in 2012 - just one percentage point above the top 0.1%.
evidence_5: oct 13, 2015 ... “what democratic socialism is about is saying that it is immoral and wrong that  the top one-tenth of 1 percent in this country own almost 90 percent — almost —  own almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. that it is wrong, today, in a  rigged economy, that 57 percent of all new income is going to the ...