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The gap between rich and poor under President Obama is getting bigger because fewer well-paying jobs are available. Corporations are being taxed to the hilt and are loathe to add more workers. Thus, salaries fall because there are more than enough applicants to fill any job vacancy.

President Obama believes that income inequality is one of the most pressing matters facing the nation. If we are going to be a country that provides ladders of opportunity and believes in a thriving middle class, then we have to raise the minimum wage.

In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.

Under Obama, income growth has been confined almost entirely to those at the top of the income distribution, continuing a pattern that began under President George W. Bush.

I fall into the camp that income inequality is the biggest problem we face.

Income inequality is worse in towns run by Democrat mayors than in towns run by Republican mayors.

Obama is a leveler. He has come to narrow the divide between rich and poor. For him the ultimate social value is fairness. Imposing it upon the American social order is his mission.

In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.

Income inequality is troubling because, among other things, it means that many people in our society don't have the opportunities to advance themselves.

Economic inequality is less troubling if you live in a country where any child, no matter how humble his or her origins, can grow up to be president.