Viral video shows how wealth is really distributed

• Leisure inequality: Who's bumming around more?

  Sure, the wealthy earn more money...but they work a lot harder for it.

  So says a new study that found that while the income gap between the rich and poor has grown since the 1980s, the leisure divide has widened too.

  Highly educated men, who generally have higher incomes, had only 33.2 hours of leisure time a week by 2007, down 1.2 hours from 1985, according to the three National Bureau of Economic MORE

  Tami Luhby - May 2, 2012 9:23 AM ET
  Posted in: educated, income inequality, leisure, poor, rich, wealthy

• Income goes up...especially for the rich

  After two years of declines, Americans' income finally rose in 2010. The Internal Revenue Service provided a first peek at taxpayers' returns and it showed that adjusted gross income totaled $8 trillion, up 5.2% from 2009.

  But a closer look at the data reveals that only the wealthiest Americans will be popping the Cristal.

  Taxpayers earning more than $250,000 saw their total adjusted gross incomes rise by 13.8%, while those bringing home MORE

  Tami Luhby - Mar 5, 2012 12:09 PM ET
  Posted in: adjusted gross income, class warfare, income inequality, internal revenue service, IRS, middle class, rich, taxes, taxpayers, wealthy