Income Inequality Explained in a Cartoon and Why the Disparity Matters (and is getting worse)

Alvin Change explains: "Something massive and important has happened in the United States over the past 50 years: Economic wealth has become increasingly concentrated among a small group of ultra-wealthy Americans."
"You can read lengthy books on this subject, like economist Thomas Piketty's recent best-seller, Capital in the Twenty-First Century (the book runs 696 pages and weighs in at 2.5 pounds). You can see references to this in the campaigns of major political candidates this cycle, who talk repeatedly about how something has gone very wrong in America."
"Donald Trump's motto is to make America great again, while Bernie Sanders's campaign focused on reducing income inequality. And there's a reason this message is resonating with voters:
It's grounded in 50 years of reality."
"You can see lots of discussion and debate and political fighting over who has wealth in America, and whether that should change. Or, you can look at the the cartoon below to understand how the distribution of wealth has changed in America, and why."

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This Cartoon Explains How the Rich Got Rich and the Poor Got Poor

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As a family economist I actually read Thomas Piketty's massive book but don't recommend it for the faint of heart. Instead, a much more readable and digestible book is Joseph E. Stiglitz's The Price of Inequality: How today's divided society endangers our future. Published in 2012 (2013 in paperback) before the last presidential election. And it's even more relevant today.Stiglitz won the Nobel prize in economics.