A fellow blogger tipped me to this article in Business Insider that graphically represents just how wide the income gap has become. And it's simp
June 15, 2010

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A fellow blogger tipped me to this article in Business Insider that graphically represents just how wide the income gap has become. And it's simply staggering: The gap between the top 1% and everyone else hasn't been this bad since the Roaring Twenties

Go take a look at the fifteen charts. And then tell me why we place so much trust in the free market system when it's clear it only works for a small percentage of Americans.

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