If you can't be bothered with a slide deck, at least look at this graph (though it's not pretty, in any sense): Median earnings for men who work full time, year-round jobs have been stagnant since ...

6% 5% The poor and middle class used to see the largest income growth ... Zucman — has been getting some attention recently for a chart it produced. It shows the change in income between ...

And so when growth returned, it favored the investment class -- the top 20 percent, and especially the top 5 percent (and, though it's not on this chart, the top 1 percent more than anybody).

The graph below answers these questions ... Everyone devotes a huge chunk of their budget to housing, for example. Poor, middle class and rich families spend similar shares of their budgets ...