  Obama should give us the truth about income gap: Other view
Inequality is a dire concern but its causes are complex and
there's no ready solution  1:21 PM, Jan. 30, 2014  |  Comments
• Filed Under  From World War II until the end of the 1970s, the
top 1 percent of American wage earners took home roughly one-
third of all U.S. income. Now they take home half. It is a
poisonous trend that leaves the benefits of economic growth to a
decreasing few while others are shut out from the American
Dream. So it's no surprise that the issue is pushing its way
onto the political stage.  Two-thirds of the public now
recognizes the problem in polls, and President Obama made it a
key theme of Tuesday night's State of the Union Address,
proposing "ladders of opportunity" to help more people climb out
of an economic hole.  But before the debate gets rolling - with
familiar prescriptions such as job training, taxes on the
wealthy, an increased minimum wage - it's worth pausing to
consider what is driving these trends, how p