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"When Thomas Gilbert Jr. was arrested on Monday and charged with killing his wealthy father with a gunshot to the head, the rubbernecking and tut-tutting began almost immediately." There had been a dispute between a son and his father over an allowance.  The dispute began after 30 year old Thomas Gilbert Jr. was upset and apparently pulled the trigger.  This might not have happened if the family was not wealthy and had a lower income.   

Is it time to stop obsessing about inequality? Whatever the reason, suddenly inequality seems to be not only at the top of the liberal agenda, but in the thoughts of concerned American voters. In his view, the defining challenge of our era is that workers in the bottom half of the distribution can no longer trust that their living standard will double every generation.

" Inequality itself is the wrong thing to look at," he told me. The real problem is slow growth." This article talks about income inequality and why it could be important. It also talks about things other politicians, such as presidents, have said about income inequality.

s it time to stop obsessing about inequality? Perhaps it was President Obama's speech last December, calling the nation's vast income gap "the defining challenge of our time." The American publication of the French economist Thomas Piketty's blockbuster "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" must have helped.

"Over the last several decades, union membership in the United States has declined precipitously, from 24 percent of all wage and salary workers in 1973 to 11.1 percent today. At the same time, our economy has increasingly begun to favor the wealthiest members of society. The labor share of income has reached the lowest level it's been since 1929, and that diminished income is distributed incredibly unequally (see chart). According to data from Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez, the richest 1 percent of Americans now take home the same share of wage income as the bottom 50 percent." This article explains how much of a problem income inequality has become today regarding voters. This can help someone who is researching income inequality by showing them how it influences other aspects of the government.

"The struggles of the poor in the United States are even starker than those of the middle class. A family at the 20th percentile of the income distribution in this country makes significantly less money than a similar family in Canada, Sweden, Norway, Finland or the Netherlands." This article talks about how the poor and middle class are making less money than other country's poor and middle class. Also how the gap between middle class and upper class is widening.

This is an article about Henrico schools receiving a top 10 rating in suspensions for African-American students with disabilities. Also, those suspensions were for relatively minor offenses. Henrico drafted a code which would decrease the suspensions.