2009-2010 incomes, sorted by income levels

The chart above, posted by Ezra Klein in the Washington Post's Wonkblog, shows changes in income from 2009 to 2010, sorted by baseline levels of income.  It's clear that those near the top of the income distribution have experienced the economic recovery more fully than the bottom 99% of income earners.

It's kind of a cumbersome table, but understandable and frankly not particularly surprising.  I went to the source of the data and found two graphs there that put the recent changes in an historic perspective.  First, the income of the top 10% of Americans -

- expressed as a % of all reported income, from 1917 (presumably when IRS data first became available) to the near-present.  Then, the same data for the top 1% -

- stretching back to 1913.  I'll defer commentary - I just wanted to post this for future reference.