Marriage and Income Inequality
America’s increased income equality is a disturbing trend that demands our attention.
America has experienced tremendous economic growth in the past 30 years. Most of the proceeds of that growth have gone to the wealthy. As a result, America is increasingly stratified into an upper middle class and the lower class.
It is increasingly difficult to move from one class to another. Additionally, income inequality has exacerbated the destruction of the community.
As the wealthy become increasingly wealthy and the poor become increasingly poor, civil society crumbles. The wealthy continue to press their interests, and the poor feel like their participation in a democracy means nothing. That is why the poor rarely show up to the polls on election day, but the wealthy always do.
Some on the Left would have Americans believe that the solution to the growing income inequality is simple and requires a few financial laws and wealth redistribution.
They rightly point to the deregulation of the financial markets and the budget cuts to social programs as the primary causes for this decline. However, this is not the only piece of this complex puzzle.
