Who Are The 1 Percent And What Do They Do For A Living?

There’s good reason to focus on the top 1%: they’re distorting our economy

Look, a crazy anti-capitalist anarchist carrying a bizarre sign incompatible with the basic tenents of liberals:

Suzy Khimm goes through the numbers here. I’m curious about occupations. I’ll hand the mic off to “Jobs and Income Growth of Top Earners and the Causes of Changing Income Inequality: Evidence from U.S. Tax Return Data“ by Bakija, Cole, and Heim. This is the latest and greatest report on occupations and inequality.

Here’s a chart of the occupations of the top 1%:

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