Inequality for All. Record Income Gap Is Undermining US Democracy

The divide between the 1 percent and the 99 percent is as great as ever. According to one recent study, the top 1 percent has captured about 95 percent of the income gains since the recession ended. “Since the recovery, almost all of the gains have gone to the very, very top.  People who are in the top 1 percent are doing even better than they did before the Great Recession, better than they have done since 1928,” says former Labor Secretary Robert Reich.  “Most Americans are on a downward escalator.  Median wage in the United States, adjusted for inflation, keeps on dropping.”  Reich is the focus of the new film, “Inequality for All.”