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Who's paying the price for America's income inequality?
In America, the top one-tenth of one percent of earners makes
about the same money per year collectively as the millions of
Americans in the bottom 50 percent combined. This is putting a
tight squeeze on the middle class, while leaving millions of others
in the cold. David Brancaccio talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning
financial reporter David Cay Johnston, as well as author and
advocate Beth Shuman, about the state of our country's vast income
divide and how it's hurting those just trying to make ends
meet.
The NOW Web site at www.pbs.org/now will feature book
excerpts from both authors and stories of low-wage earners fighting
for income equality.