American Enterprise Institute, January 12, 2016: (Blog) Explaining income inequality by household demographics
“In December of 2013, President Obama called America’s “dangerous and growing” income inequality the “defining challenge of our time,” and he said he planned to put the topic of income inequality at the center of his agenda during the remainder of his second term. More recently the World Economic Forum cited income inequality in November 2014 as the top threat facing the world in 2015 based on a survey of about 1,800 leaders from academia, business, government, and non-profits. And just yesterday, VP Joe Biden praised Sen. Bernie Sanders for “offering an authentic voice on income inequality.” Biden also told CNN that Hillary Clinton has “come forward with some really thoughtful approaches to deal with the issue of income inequality.”