Diamond Member Pelican Press 0 Posted May 17, 2025 Diamond Member Share Posted May 17, 2025 This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up If Wealth Was Evenly Distributed Across America, How Much Money Would Every Person Have? According to the Federal Reserve, U.S. households hold $160.35 trillion in combined wealth, which is the value of every American’s This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up . Find Out: This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up Try This: This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up Advertisement: High Yield Savings Offers Powered by Money.com – Yahoo may earn commission from the links above. To say it’s distributed unevenly is too much of an understatement to even qualify as an understatement. The bottom 50% of the country shares less than 3% of that enormous pie, while the most fortunate 10% gorge on nearly all of it. Here’s a look at how much money each American would have if every person got an equal slice of the country’s wealth. Next, find out This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up . According to This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up ’s Data Commons project, the U.S. is home to roughly 340.11 million people. If they This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up the country’s $160.35 trillion jackpot equally, each would have about $471,465. That’s $942,930 per couple. If a couple had two kids, the four of them would be sitting pretty with $1.89 million. To most in the lower 50%, that probably sounds like a pretty sweet deal. To many in the monied class in the top half, however, a net worth of less than a half-million dollars might as well be a stint in the poorhouse. Learn More: This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up Nearly one dollar in three is in the pockets of the top 1%, which owns $49.46 trillion, or 30.8% of America’s combined wealth — but even the 1% has This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up and an underclass. The heavyweights at the tippy-top of the pyramid in the top 0.1% — about 340,000 people — own $22.14 trillion, or 13.8% of America’s bounty. That leaves the commoners of the 1% — the 99%-99.9% percentile group — to share $27.32 trillion, or 17% of America’s fortune. Under that are those in the 90%-99% percentile group, who control $58.34 trillion, or 36.4% of the pie. Combined with the 1%, that puts almost exactly two-thirds of America’s wealth in the bank accounts of the top 10%. Nearly all of the remaining third of America’s wealth — 30.3%, or $48.54 trillion — goes to those in the 50%-90% percentile groups. That leaves just 2.5%, or $4.01 trillion, for the entire bottom 50% of the country to split. If they split it evenly, This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up , that would give each of those 170 million people $23,588. For context, the 340,000 movers and shakers in the top 0.1% get about $65.12 million each — 2,760 times more. This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up #Wealth #Evenly #Distributed #America #Money #Person This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up For verified travel tips and real support, visit: https://hopzone.eu/ 0 Quote Link to comment https://hopzone.eu/forums/topic/251860-if-wealth-was-evenly-distributed-across-america-how-much-money-would-every-person-have/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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