Pledge 1% founding partners include Salesforce, Atlassian, and Rally, three companies that know first-hand how pledging a small portion of future success today can have an enormous impact tomorrow. Forty-percent (40%) of rapes and sexual assaults were reported to police in 2017, but only about 25% were reported to police in 2018. While it takes about $500,000 per year to enter the top 1% of Americans, reaching the 0.1% now requires an annual income of more than $2 million. According to the latest Fed data, the top 1% of Americans have a combined net worth of $34.2 trillion (or 30.4% of all household wealth in the U.S.), while the … Tagged as 2020 election, Antifa, Black Lives Matter, George Soros. They have responded with a revolution of their own, a revolution from above, the one currently under way in the United States. As we mark the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower arrival to America, we should consider the holiday’s true origins. (2019). The bottom half of American families held just 1.5 percent of the wealth. The income needed to join the top 1% of earners varies greatly from country to country, and the bar is highest in the United Arab Emirates. Theirs was a protest against “the One Percent.” However, the One Percenters begged to differ. In 2019, families with net worths exceeding $1 million owned 79.2 percent of all the household wealth in the country. While astronomical, this level of inequality should come as no surprise. November 20, 2020. "In 2015, a family in the top 1 percent nationally received, on average, 26.3 times as much income as a family in the bottom 99 percent," the researchers, Estelle Sommelier and Mark Price, wrote. Wages for the bottom 90% only grew 23.9% in the same time period. Despite the increase in self-reports of rape and sexual assault, there was a decrease in reporting to police from 2017 to 2018. Criticism of the Top 1% There's been a lot of criticism of the world's ultra-rich, especially those living in … 0. The average income in India is $2,020. Morgan, R., & Oudekerk, B. The Descendants of the One Percent For many Native Americans, Thanksgiving is a National Day of Mourning. According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, the richest 1 percent of Americans are expected to receive 27 percent of the benefits of the tax cuts in 2020. It was created by Jamie Johnson, an heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune, and produced by Jamie Johnson and Nick Kurzon. … Their members' combined net worth equaled an unbelievable $2.96 trillion in 2020. The higher the U.S. income group, IRS data show, the larger the share of income derived from investment profits. Since 1979, the top 1% saw their wages grow by 157.8% and the top 0.1% by more than twice as much⁠—340.7%. The One Percent is a 2006 documentary about the growing wealth gap between the wealthy elite compared to the overall citizenry in the United States. By Marek Jan Chodakiewicz. SOURCE.