The White House Says Its Policies Slashed the Income Gap

(September 23) – One of the big criticisms of the current economic expansion—and also the one that ran from 2001 through 2007—is that most of the gains accrued to the best off, unleashing a populist groundswell in the presidential election campaign. The White House lays out the case in a new report that the Obama administration’s policies have done more than any administration in the last half-century to reduce inequality.