Wealthiest Americans Are Recovery's Only Winners, Pew Study Finds
no suprise there but how would define wealthy thats the real question..
dean1star:
no suprise there but how would define wealthy thats the real question..
no suprise there but how would define wealthy thats the real question..
They already defined it : "households with net worth of $500,000 or more".
Possibly abit more than that
Well off is more likely 500K+
Rich 1 mill+
Wealth is usually inherited, unless your abit of a genius and or get lucky
Chris Rock sums it up in one of his stand ups
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The U.S. economy has recovered for households with net worth of $500,000 or more, a new study shows. The recession continues for almost everyone else.
Wealthy households boosted their net worth by 21.2 percent in the aftermath of the recession, according to the study released today by the Pew Research Center. The rest of America lost 4.9 percent of household wealth from 2009 to 2011.
Pew attributed the disparity to gains during that period in the stock and bond markets, benefiting affluent households, while the housing market’s decline hit others harder. The report underscores the nation’s growing income inequality, with the top 13 percent of households recovering their losses from the 18- month recession that ended in June 2009, and the rest of the country continuing to hemorrhage wealth.
“The results are entirely sensible, but depressing,” said Richard Fry, a Pew senior research associate and co-author of the study by the Washington-based organization. “It’s a stark story of two Americas.”
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