U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee

- Real incomes have fallen for all but the richest 20 percent of households under the  Bush administration

- The top 5 percent makes nearly as much as the bottom 60 percent

- Over half of all income goes to the top 20 percent, the largest share on record

- Even after taxes, half of all income went to the top 20 percent in 2004

- The Bush tax cuts gave millionaires 114 times the benefits that middle-income families received in 2007

- Families making less than $40,000 annually received a $327 reduction in their 2007 taxes, less than 3 percent the cut for millionaires

- The total net worth of the top 1 percent of families was larger than that of the bottom 90 percent in 2004, the last year for which we have data

- The wealthiest 10 percent of households held 70 percent of wealth in 2004

- 12.5 percent of American families have a net worth less than $1,700