The Most Underrated Story On The US Economy

For decades, the story was simple: The gap between the rich and the poor grew ever-wider as incomes increased faster at the top than the bottom. The story was true, too. Wages have been rising faster for the top 5 percent than for the bottom 20 percent almost every year this century. But in a remarkable reversal, annual wage growth has been greater (as a percent) for the poor than for the rich in the last few years.