For example, results from the Federal Reserve’s latest Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), which is due to be released soon, indicate that the share of income held by the top 1 percent of households reached 24 percent in 2015, up from 17 percent in 1988.
The share of wealth held by the top 1 percent rose to 39 percent in 2016, up from 30 percent in 1989.