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Widening to extreme proportions. >> in the 1950s, in the 1960s, income inequality was falling. the poor and the middle class were getting larger pay increases than the rich. >> by the 1980s, the bottom 90% of earners owned 35% of the country's wealth. while this top 1% had only 24%. today that's reversed. the top 1% own nearly 40% of the country's wealth why the bottom 90% control just 27%. >> income inequality is the gap between what the rich are earning and what everyone else is earning. one of the dominant features of the u.s. economy over the last 40 or 50 years is it has been growing a lo...

Country's wealth, while the top 1% controlled only 24%. today, that's reversed. the top 1% own nearly 40% of the country's wealth while the bottom 90% control just 27%. >> income inequality is the gap between what the rich are earning and what everyone else is earning. one of the dominant features of the u.s. economy over the last 40 or 50 years is that it has been growing a lot. >> while other countries also struggle with income inequality, they soften the blow by offering things like universal health care, job retraining programs, child care benefits and free education. meanwhile, the u.s. i...

>> in the 1950s and 1960s, income inequality was falling. the poor and the middle class were getting larger pay increases by the rich. >> by the 1980s, the bottom 90% of earners owned 35% of the country's wealth, while the top 1% controlled only 24%. today that's reversed. the top 1% only nearly 40% of the country's wealth while the bottom 90% control just 27%. >> income inequality is the gap between what the rich are earning and what everyone else is earning. and one of the dominant features of the u.s. economy over the last 40 or 50 years is that it has been growing a lot. >> while other cou...

It's like through the looking glass. i mean what is this? >> meanwhile over at the white house deputy press secretary sara sanders weighed in on president trump's behalf saying she thought attorney general jeff sessions quote did a very good job. president trump flu to wisconsin promoting the administration's workforce development week with first daughter ivanka trump. on tuesday they visited a technical college promogt apprenticeships. today ivanka by her father's side as they visit the labor department again focusing on the president's workforce initiative. a lot of details we're wonder ab...

>> essentially, the job retraining programs and some of the vo-tech programs, too computer based. he was complaining of a lack of skilled labor but physical skilled labor. >> i think we have to move forward on all fronts. we have to do -- not everybody wants to go to college. that's fine. god knows, there are enormous amounts of work out there that don't require a college degree. we have to get people the training to do that. which is why we have to rebuild our inner cities. we have to rebuild our infrastructure. there's a need for affordable housing in this country. we can put millions of peo...