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A woman holds a champagne flute out the window of a limosine in this undated file photo. The richest one percent of Americans earned a record 21.2 percent of all income in 2005, up from 19 percent a year earlier, reflecting a widening income disparity among different classes in the nation, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing new Internal Revenue Service data. (Ian Waldie/Reuters)Reuters - The gap between America's richest and poorest is at its widest in at least 25 years, with the wealthiest taking home a record share of the nation's income that exceeds even the previous high in 2000.



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