A technology gap between the rich and poor is deepening US inequality

Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images US inequality has been rising for decades, but it gained political prominence afterthe Great Recession gave rise to grassroots movements like Occupy Wall Street, forcing both political parties to start openly debating the issue. Unfortunately, the two major US political parties appear largely unable to agree, bothwithin themselves andbetween one another, on the best solution tothe problem. Given that impasse, equal access to basic technologies seems like a fairly lo...