A BBC news report on the widening gulf in income and wealth inequality in the United States (and New York in particular). Income inequality is now as high as it was during the worst period of the 1920s. The richest Americans now hold one fifth of all of the country's income - and the top 10% actually hold half of it.
http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/economics/comments/inequality-in-new-york-can-new-york-bridge-the-income-inequality-gap
