Dec 12 9:07 PM

The great divide

Women walk by a panhandler along Madison Avenue.
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The Stream (Al Jazeera)

The top 10% in America took more than HALF of the country’s total income in 2012, and the pay ratio of CEO to average worker grew from 20-1 in 1965 to 273-1 last year. Is income & wealth inequality the defining challenge of our time? Who’s responsible for the growing gap between the haves & the have-nots? Is it the government’s place to step in and shrink this gap, or is it up to the free market? Join the conversation at 7:30pmET.

Tonight on The Stream, we'll speak to:

Lori Sanders @Lori_SuLin
Policy Analyst, R Street Institute

Randall Amster @randallamster
Director, Program on Justice and Peace at Georgetown University

Darrick Hamilton @DarrickHamilton
Associate Professor of Urban Policy at The New School

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