We haven't seen economic inequality this bad in nearly a century. In 1965, American CEOs earned on average 20 times the average worker.
Today, they make nearly 300 times the average worker. Over the past 40 years, median wages for the top 1% have tripled while the bottom half of earners in our nation have seen no increase in their real wages.
A few years ago, the Washington Post ran a headline "The richest 1 percent now owns more of the country's wealth than at any time in the past 50 years." In the face of this daunting reality, a group of innovative thinkers are proposing a suite of bold solutions to tackle this inequality and give every American more solid economic footing.