The California Chasm: A Look At Income Inequality In The Golden State

This piece was originally published on Capital & Main. As it pushes historic levels, inequality has become a hot topic. Activists have organized around the rich-poor divide, with "The One Percent" and "The 99 Percent" becoming a part of everyday language. The President made inequality a focus of this year's State of the Union address and called for a new "middle-class economics." And a French economist, Thomas Piketty, reached the top of the American best seller list - when did that last happen?...