Some Random References on Income Inequality

• Highly recommended article from Slate magazine provides a nice overview of the topic: The United States of Inequality
• Book by Robert Reich, Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future
• Article from the Cato Institute (Libertarian/Right wing advocacy organization): Thinking Clearly about Economic Inequality (pdf)
  Caveat: I don't agree with this article's assertions. It misrepresents opposing arguments and uses several strange leaps of logic, but it's worth seeing how opponents argue against the of the idea of trying to do something about income inequality.
• Wealth Matters - Studying the Elite, Whether They Like It or Not - NYTimes.com
• Robert Reich, blog post: The Perfect Storm
• Income Inequality: Too Big to Ignore (NYTimes.com)
• Codification system for comparing income inequality across countries: Gini coefficient
• The New Republic: The Morality Of Taxing The Rich
• Reducing Income Inequality: The Next Phase of True Financial Reform (Ray Brescia, Huffington Post)
• Special Report: The haves, the have-nots and the dreamless dead (Reuters, Emily Kaiser)