Gap Between Richest And Poorest Now Higher Than It's Ever Been

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2. Extreme income inequity is good for America, that is its 1%, because the more extreme the poverty,

the more desperate people will become just to feed and shelter their families. Many will resort to drugs to cope and steal just to eat, so multitudes can be put in private prisons and farmed out to other for-profit corporations. See, a ludicrously low minimum wage works out so well for the 1% that there is little/no interest in increasing the minimum wage to a livable level. Welcome to a right-wing society brought to you by bought politicians.