Top 1 percent’s share of average income growth during expansions, by region

United States Northeast Midwest South West
1949–1953 1% 0% 3% 0% -1%
1954–1957 5% 5% 7% 6% 3%
1958–1960 8% 4% 9% 11% 7%
1961–1969 10% 11% 9% 11% 8%
1970–1973 10% 0% 6% 14% 16%
1975–1979 23% 63% 20% 20% 20%
1982–1990 48% 39% 38% 46% 93%
1991–2000 45% 57% 28% 35% 58%
2001–2007 57% 50% 64% 56% 57%
2009–2013 85% 126% 45% 97% 78%

Source: Author's analysis of state-level tax data from Sommeiller (2006) extended to 2012 using state-level data from the Internal Revenue Service SOI Tax Stats (various years), Piketty and Saez (2015), and Tcherneva (2014)

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