Top 1% Got 93% of Income Growth as Rich-Poor Gap Widened
By Peter Robison - 2012-10-02T04:01:00Z
Since 2009, Anita Reyes’ wages have been as frozen as Lake Minnetonka in January.
While the U.S. economy was recovering from the Great Recession, Reyes, 52, a casino dealer from Minneapolis, was dining on $1.67 cans of soup and searching for a way to keep her house, which was foreclosed on last October.
“I went backwards,” Reyes said. “Two years ago, three years ago, I didn’t know I’d be looking at being homeless.”
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