David F. Ruccio — Poll of the day

A new New York Times/CBS poll [pdf] confirms what every other recent poll I’ve seen has shown:

• Americans overwhelmingly believe current economic arrangements in the United States are fundamentally unfair (because “just a few people at the top have a chance to get ahead,” the distribution of money and wealth “should be more even,” and the gap between the rich and poor is “getting larger”) and
• something should be done about it (since the gap between rich and poor needs to be “addressed now”,” the government should do more to “reduce gap,” and they “favor” raising taxes on people earning more than $1 million a year).

Maybe why the Overton window is finally beginning to shift leftward.

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David F. Ruccio | Professor of Economics University of Notre Dame Notre Dame