From Common Dreams: The Rich Get Richer, and Richer Still: Soaring Inequality in the US and Why it Matters

There are powerful forces out there fighting with all of their might and all of their abundant resources to preserve the status quo.

By TIM KOECHLIN 

The United States is, by every reasonable measure, the most unequal of the world’s rich countries. For four decades, the US has been suffering from a crisis of inequality. After too many years of inaction and complicity, a growing number of Democrats seem to get it. Trump and the Republicans, on the other hand, are hell-bent on making it worse.Evidence of extreme and rising economic inequality in the US is quite overwhelming.

Read more here: https://www.common-dreams.org/views/2019/07/04/rich-get-richer-and-richer-still-soaring-inequality-us-and-why-it-matters