For example, the lowest-wealth quartile has no net worth on balance, while the next quartile has controlled only about 3 percent of the total, and the top 10 percent have held about two- thirds. These figures have changed little over the past decade, a fact that attests to the difficulty that many households have in accumulating wealth.
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