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131. Income Inequality - Pew Research Center

I guess it depends upon how you define "addressing" - but this is the REALITY of where we are:


America’s wealth gap between middle-income and upper-income families is widest on record

By Richard Fry and Rakesh Kochhar

The wealth gap between America’s high income group and everyone else has reached record high levels since the economic recovery from the Great Recession of 2007-09, with a clear trajectory of increasing wealth for the upper-income families and no wealth growth for the middle- and lower-income families.

A new Pew Research Center analysis of wealth finds the gap between America’s upper-income and middle-income families has reached its highest level on record. In 2013, the median wealth of the nation’s upper-income families ($639,400) was nearly seven times the median wealth of middle-income families ($96,500), the widest wealth gap seen in 30 years when the Federal Reserve began collecting these data.

In addition, America’s upper-income families have a median net worth that is nearly 70 times that of the country’s lower-income families, also the widest wealth gap between these families in 30 years ...

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/12/17/wealth-gap-upper-middle-income/