http://onpoint.wbur.org/2013/10/04/inequality-and-american-democracy
Americans, in general, have a notably open attitude toward inequality. A bunch of those big fortunes came from big innovation. Big innovation has historically driven the American economy. A lot of Americans hope to strike it big themselves one day. But lately, American inequality has moved into territory so stark that it tests assumptions, even tests our democracy. When the poor are poor, the middle class is falling, and the rich are running the table, driving so much politics, does democracy still work as it should? Up next in a special edition of On Point: Democracy and America’s new inequality.
– Tom Ashbrook
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