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Although this isn't an appropriate forum for this, I do have a beef with the statistics in this. The "wealthy" is poorly defined within these statistical metrics. It seems implied that $1 million of assets is defined as wealthy (with 3.5 million people falling into this category) for the first statistics you quote, but I am unsure of that - I also question whether most people would define that as wealthy when it includes the home of the purchaser - certainly it isn't poor, but it is far from Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, or Donald Trump (three people traditionally thought of as wealthy).
Instead of being a journalism article in the Washington Post, it is actually from a book The Millionaire Next Door (The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy) that is part of the Washington Post's book section.