A little perspective: If you make just $10,000 a year, roughly the 2007 federal poverty rate for one person living in the U.S., you're earning more than 5.8 billion people (there are currently 6.6 billion people in the world). That doesn't take into account cost of living and relative poverty, but it's still interesting to think about. Here are some more comparisons:

• If you make $30,000, there are 6,172,511,531 poorer than you.
• If $40,000: there are 6,411,789,392 poorer than you.
• If $50,000: there are 6,543,194,886 poorer than you.
• If $60,000: there are 6,547,077,734 poorer than you.
• If $70,000: there are 6,550,960,582 poorer than you.
• If $80,000: there are 6,554,843,430 poorer than you.
• If $90,000: there are 6,558,726,278 poorer than you.
• If $100,000: there are 6,562,609,126 poorer than you.
• If $110,000: there are 6,566,491,974 poorer than you.
• If $120,000: there are 6,570,374,822 poorer than you.

The more interesting piece of information is that, while the population has grown by 150,000,000 people since July 2005, the wealth gap has increased by roughly 600,000,000 people, according to Justin Gardner at Donklephant.

"Long story short, the poor are indeed getting poorer."