sentences:  Measured by the share captured by the top 1%, by 2012, post-Great Recession market income inequality was as high as it was during the Roaring Twenties, at just over 20%.The Great Recession took place from December 2007 to June 2009.From 2007-2010 total income going to the bottom 99 percent of Americans declined by 11.6%, while the top 1% fell by 36.3%.