Today the people whom the American government is helping the most are members of the middle class. Why does the American middle class need so much help? Over the same twenty-eight years, the after-tax income of the highest-earning 1 percent of Americans grew 275 percent.The same figure for the middle class was only 37 percent. For the bottom 20 gains were even scantier at 18 percent.
This has gotten worse since 2007
