The gap is even wider at the national level, with the top 1 percent making 27.4 times as much as the average income of the 99 percent.

There’s little reason to expect change in the overall trend in the years since 2014, the most recent year for which the analysis of income data could be made, said Laura Dresser, associate director of COWS, a think tank based at UW-Madison.

“The trajectory in the U.S. in the economy and policy are similar from 2014 to now,” Dresser said. “You see an upward drift of increasing inequality. I don’t see anything pushing hard in the other direction.”

Even economic development and jobs initiatives — like the proposed siting of a plant in Wisconsin by Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn — are typically structured to benefit the wealthy, she said.