Eduardo Porter has a good, balanced...

...piece in the Times today, "Inequality Undermines Democracy," in which he points out, among other things (my emphasis): 

From 1993 to 2010, the incomes of the richest 1 percent of Americans grew 58 percent while the rest had a 6.4 percent bump. 

And, 

The income gap narrowed briefly during the Great Recession, as plummeting stock prices shrunk the portfolios of the rich. But in 2010, the first year of recovery, the top 1 percent of Americans captured 93 percent of the income gains.