Claim: "The income of the top 1 percent nearly quadrupled from 1979 to 2007, but the typical family's incomes barely budged."
Fact-check: Barack Obama says top 1 percent saw incomes quadruple, while typical family saw theirs barely budge
Verdict: true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Louis Jacobson
Date published: 2013-07-25T00:00:00