David Sirota — The Surprising Reason that Crushing Economic Inequality Isn't More of Election Issue

In an interview with the Harvard Business Review, one of the researchers who conducted the study said Americans' inaccurate beliefs about the pay gap may be the reason economic inequality hasn't become more of a political issue.…

… economic inequality remains a peripheral political issue. Why? Based on the data, it is not because the problem is insignificant - it is more likely because Americans' misperceive just how unequal their country has become.

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The Surprising Reason that Crushing Economic Inequality Isn't More of Election Issue
David Sirota, AlterNet