The share of U.S. wealth held by the top 1% has soared in recent decades from 20% to 35%.

The ratio of the wealthiest 1% to median wealth is at a record 225:1.

The bottom 80% of Americans hold only 11% of the wealth and a mere 5% of the financial wealth.

Meanwhile, the bottom 90% is falling deeper and deeper into debt.

It's the top 0.01% who have really cleaned up, claiming around 5.5% of pre-tax total income.

While the super rich are getting richer, top marginal tax rates are well below the historical average.

Median household income has fallen around 7% since the recession, despite the stock market roaring back to new highs.

Forget the American Dream: Poor people find it harder than ever to rise to the upper middle class.

While productivity keeps rising, inflation-adjusted wages have been flat for fifty years.

Consequently, wages as a percent of the economy have dropped to an all-time low ...

... and corporate profits and profit margins are at an all-time high.

The average CEO earns as much as 243 workers, up from a 24:1 ratio in the sixties.

Meanwhile, fewer Americans are employed than at any time in the past three decades.

America redistributes its wealth far less than other developed countries.

The top 0.1% in America are doing way better than the top 0.1% in other first-world countries.

America's inequality rating has ticked higher in recent decades (0 = perfect equality; 1 = perfect inequality).

We won't even get into racial inequality, except to note that the average white American is worth 15 times as much as the average black American.

What are the consequences of inequality? Let's start with higher infant mortality ...

... lower life expectancy ...

... and many other health and social problems, including higher rates of homicide, imprisonment, teenage birth, obesity, addiction, and more.

Actual wealth distribution in America is much more unbalanced than people realize — and much worse still than they would like.