Changes in the Distribution of Wealth: Increasing Inequality?

Are the rich getting rich and the poor getting poorer? Public concern about apparently growing disparities between the two has led to increasing interest in how wealth is distributed. John C. Weicher examines the changes in the distribution of wealth among U.S. households that occurred between 1983 and 1989, a period which corresponds approximately to the economic expansion that began in late 1982 and ended in mid-1990.