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The most important chart of 2014, explained in under a minute

By Matthew Yglesias and Joe Posner

This is a shocking chart.

The bottom 90% used to see the majority of the income growth during economic expansion.

But in the current recovery, the bottom 90% actually saw incomes shrink while the top 10% saw incomes soar.

This explains why 72% of Americans said the US was still in recession in a recent survey.

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