Wealth inequality in U.S.: 1 percent of the country has 40 percent of the country’s wealth [VIDEO]

A familiar rallying cry from the Occupy protests of 2011 was “We are the 99 percent.” It served as a condensed if simplistic version of protestors’ argument about the unfair nature of staggering income inequality in the U.S.
A video making the rounds on YouTube breaks down the distribution of wealth among a variety of socioeconomic classes in the U.S., illustrating that one percent of people in the U.S. hold 40 percent of the nation’s wealth.

Watch the video:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM&w=550&h=309]