WHY DO PEOPLE AT THE TOP MAKE SO MUCH MONEY?

“Now that the rubble has been cleared from the Great Recession, Americans have stopped bonding over the shared experience of the economic near-disaster and its aftermath. And people on the low-and-middle segment of the income spectrum have started to demand answers to a deeper and longer-in-development problem: why are the people at the top making so much money, while others work full time and must still rely on federal assistance to buy food and afford housing?”

Susan Milligan, “The New Economic Issue, With the Economy Improving, Candidates Across the Political Spectrum Are Focusing on Income Inequality," U.S. News & World Report, May 1, 2015