First, from the new report, here are the income shares of the top 1 percent and the rest of the top quintile:
There has been no rise in the share of the 81-99 group! It’s all about the top 1 percent.Second, even within the top 1 percent the gains are going mainly to a small minority. An earlier CBO report, using slightly different methods, looked inside the top 1 percent up through 2005. Here’s some of that data:
The big gains have gone to the top 0.1 percent.

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