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Economic Inequality: The American Dream under Siege

The top one-tenth of one percent of the US population has a combined net worth equal to that of the bottom ninety percent. This extreme level of economic inequality has not been seen since the Great Depression. Today many Americans are struggling with unemployment, stagnant wages, crippling debt, and mortgage foreclosures. Author Coral Frazer and consultant Michael Frazer explore how bad the situation is, what the human impact is, how money impacts politics, and what some of the causes and remedies might be.