Change in buying power since 2000

This is an effort to use the census HINC-05 tables to get an idea of how buying power has changed between the poor, middle class and rich. The following table shows the incomes at the division line between the five quintiles of the population:

Year	Between First and Second Quintile	Between Second and Middle Quintile	Between Middle and Fourth Quintile	Between Fourth and Highest Quintile
2000	17955	33005	52265	81960
2001	17960	33312	53000	83500
2002	17916	33377	53151	84016
2003	17984	34000	54440	86860
2004	18500	34738	55331	88030
2005	19178	36000	57658	91705
2006	20032	37771	60000	97030
2007	20300	39100	62000	100000
2008	20712	39000	62750	100250
2009	20450	38530	61800	100000
2010	20000	38040	61720	100065
2011	20260	38515	62434	101577
2012	20593	39736	64554	104086
2013	20900	40187	65502	105900
2014	21430	41167	68200	112254

The following table is the inflation adjusted version of the above table in year 2000 dollars:

Year	Between First and Second Quintile	Between Second and Middle Quintile	Between Middle and Fourth Quintile	Between Fourth and Highest Quintile
2000	17955	33005	52265	81960
2001	17677	32217	51257	82185
2002	17221	31771	50593	80755
2003	16964	31606	50606	81932
2004	16893	31689	50475	80383
2005	16936	31791	50917	80985
2006	17259	32259	51244	83598
2007	17013	32770	51962	83810
2008	16723	31489	50665	80943
2009	16578	31235	50099	81066
2010	15958	30353	49245	79841
2011	15710	29865	48412	78763
2012	15639	30178	49026	79049
2013	15638	30069	49010	79238
2014	15782	30317	50226	82669

The table below shows the above table in terms of delta from the year 2000 values:

Year	Between First and Second Quintile	Between Second and Middle Quintile	Between Middle and Fourth Quintile	Between Fourth and Highest Quintile
2000	0	0	0	0
2001	-278	-788	-1008	225
2002	-734	-1234	-1672	-1205
2003	-991	-1399	-1659	-28
2004	-1062	-1316	-1790	-1577
2005	-1019	-1214	-1348	-975
2006	-696	-746	-1021	1638
2007	-942	-235	-303	1850
2008	-1232	-1516	-1600	-1017
2009	-1377	-1770	-2166	-894
2010	-1997	-2652	-3020	-2119
2011	-2245	-3140	-3853	-3197
2012	-2316	-2827	-3239	-2911
2013	-2317	-2936	-3255	-2722
2014	-2173	-2688	-2039	709

Finally, the following link is the graph of the above table data:

http://i.imgur.com/SSNymgo.png

What we see is that compared to 2000, income The highest quintile is the only one to recover from the Great Recession. Despite all the legislation by the Democrats to help the poor, economically it has all ended up helping the richest of our population instead.