The top 1 percent in recent years have garnered roughly 20 percent of household income, but nearly 40 percent of household wealth. The share of wealth held by that top 1 percent nearly doubled from less than 25 percent of total national wealth in the early 1980s to more than 40 percent in 2016. In fact, the top 0.1 percent of American families now hold about 20 percent of household wealth, almost as much as at the peak of the first Gilded Age.
