The income gap between Wisconsin’s richest and poorest families is widening, according to a report by UW-Madison’s Center on Wisconsin Strategy.
Average real incomes of the state’s richest families grew 36 percent from the late 1980s to the mid-2000s, more than five times the 7 percent income growth of the poorest families.
In the late 1980s, Wisconsin’s richest families earned average incomes 4.7 times the income of the state’s poorest families.