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US income inequality at record high

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An analysis of tax filings found the income gap between the richest people in the country and everyone else is the highest it has been in nearly three decades. Interestingly enough, one economist theorizes this could have been accelerated not by the nagging high unemployment rate but rather by the sale of stock from the wealthy in order to avoid capital gains taxes.