ROBERT REICH in Inequality For All: Of all developed nations today, the United States has the most unequal distribution of income and wealth by far. And we’re surging towards even greater inequality. One way of looking at and measuring inequality is to look at the earnings of people at the top versus the earnings of the typical worker in the middle.

The typical male worker in 1978 was making around $48,000, adjusting for inflation, while the average person in the top one percent earned $390,000. Now fast forward. By 2010, the typical male worker earned even less than he did then. But at person the top got more than twice as much as before. Today, the richest 400 Americans have more wealth than the bottom 150 million of us put together. Now think about it. Four hundred people have more wealth than half the population of the United States. Interview with Robert Reich