US Politics
The Gilded Age Returns: America's Wealth Concentration Hits a Seventy-Year High
The richest 1% of Americans now hold nearly a third of the nation's wealth, a level not seen since WWII, signaling a dangerous return to the extreme inequality of the Gilded Age. This breathtaking consolidation of wealth, accelerated by policy choices favoring the super-rich, threatens the very foundations of American democracy and the promise of shared prosperity.
