Income Inequality

a. What evidence is presented in the text that income inequality has increased over time in the United States?

b. Use supply and demand of educated workers to explain the increase in income inequality.

c. Use supply and demand of less-educated workers to explain the increase in income inequality.

d. Do a Web search and contrast, if possible, the positions of the Democrats and the positions of the Republicans on whether increased income inequality is a problem in need of a policy solution.

e. There is some 2011 evidence on who married whom by level of education at http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/ archive/2013/04/college-graduates-marry-other-collegegraduates-most-of-the-time/274654/. Explain how, if like educated people are more likely to marry each other over time, this contributes to income inequality.