US top 1% still 'getting richer'

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The income of the top 1% of US households has quadrupled over the last thirty years.

However, at the bottom end of the scale incomes have barely changed.

Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz explained to Ben Thompson how evident inequality has become in the United States.

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