There wasn't always a huge gap in the rate of change of incomes at the top and the bottom, but in 1980 something changed. What do you think explains the huge gap between the rise in the minimum wage and the top 1% wage?
List three tangible differences in the lives of the top 1% and the lives of those earning the minimum wage:
Should the government do anything to close this gap?
What could the government do to close this gap?
Would you support a maximum wage? Taylor Swift, the top selling US music star, earned $39,699,575.60 in 2013. Would you support a law capping all income at $40,000,000? $400,000,000? $4,000,000,000?
