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U.S. Wage Disparity Took Another Turn for the Worse Last Year

The rich-poor pay gap is getting wider

The picture on income inequality in America just got a little bleaker.


Top wage earners last year made 5.05 times what their lowest-income counterparts took home, the widest gap in data going back to 1979, according to the Labor Department. What’s worse, it shows the most recent improvement -- in 2014 -- was just a blip, and the trend is again moving in the wrong direction seen over almost four decades.