U.S. Income Inequality Grows?

Our Banana Republic

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

The richest 1 percent of Americans now take home almost 24 percent of income, up from almost 9 percent in 1976. As Timothy Noah of Slate noted in an excellent series on inequality, the United States now arguably has a more unequal distribution of wealth than traditional banana republics like Nicaragua, Venezuela and Guyana.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/07/opinion/07kristof.html