Claim: "Over the last few decades, the income of the top 1 percent grew by more than 275 percent -- to an average of $1.3 million a year."
Fact-check: Barack Obama says income for top earners up 275 percent since 1979
Verdict: mostly-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Henry J. Gomez
Date published: 2012-06-28T00:00:00