First, give credit to where it’s due: David Leonhart of The New York Times has produced a wonderful chart on income inequality in his article, “Our broken economy.”

Taken from data compiled by Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, it shows how the poor and middle class, who used to see the benefits from income growth, are now largely getting the scraps, left behind by the 1%, or really, the 0.001%.