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Economy: The Gap Grows

US Census data for 2010 show that the USA has  the largest income disparity of any Western nation. How can that be?

What do we do?  It seems that to many we should give up Jefferson’s ideals of America as the land of opportunity by cutting the chances of students to attend Universities.

Of course, we can always solve the problem by cutting taxes on the wealthy and spending more money on sports teams!

Read more by James Carroll at the Boston Globe.