"The modern income gap began growing dramatically in the late 1970s because of several factors, Obama said. Technology and globalization allowed employers to reduce manufacturing jobs, or move them offshore." This article is focused around how income inequality affects America and what Obama's opinion is about it. It includes topics such as how income is more of a dividing factor that race and that to lessen the  gap between the rich and poor minimum wages should be increased and better education should be given to everyone.

"We have moved from a society in the 1950s and 1960s, in which race was more consequential than family income, to one today in which family income appears more determinative of educational success than race," said Sean F. Reardon, a Stanford University sociologist. Professor Reardon is the author of a study that found that the gap in standardized test scores between affluent and low-income students had grown by about 40 percent since the 1960s, and is now double the testing gap between blacks and whites." This article talks about how over the years the gap between education of the lower and upper class has just been getting wider. The difference in these two social standings has a big impact from grade school all the way until college, and the kids with a lower income have substantially less opportunities then they should.