With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted in a generation.
From Timothy Noah
The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot - too much, in retrospect - about the rich.
The federal government does not trample in jackboots those with whom it does business. It wraps them in cotton batting and, when they express ingratitude, apologizes profusely.
Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity.
The war to rein in Wall Street excess is never over.
The House of Representatives eliminated the filibuster way back in the 19th century, and somehow it managed to survive.
Working people vote!
The hometown economic elite - rich local families or individuals whom people used to praise or revile, read about in the society pages, and gossip about incessantly - disappeared from most American cities decades ago.
Some liberals think that describing any role that education gaps play in creating income inequality is some sort of sellout - that, in essence, you're telling the middle class, 'Tough luck; you should have stayed in college.'
You have to let the market reward effort and skill. But a system in which inequality of incomes constantly increases over time is worrisome.
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