Hillary Clinton has always been to Obama's left on economics

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41. "Folks are impatient" because they need to eat.

The gap between the very rich and everyone else continues to grow, as acknowledged by many sources. The last thing we need is centrist or conservative economic policy for another four years. We need to be as progressive as possible - and that is Bernie Sanders (who has a solid record in the Congress and is already gaining the support of middle America). I don't think he's nearly as "unelectable" as some of you seem to think.

The income gap between America’s rich and poor has widened during the economic recovery -- despite rising employment and a growing economy, the Federal Reserve said Thursday.

While average income before taxes for the wealthiest 10 percent of U.S. families rose 10 percent from 2010 to 2013, inflation-adjusted incomes for the poorest 40 percent of families actually declined, according to the Fed’s Survey of Consumer Finances.

The average income for all Americans rose 4 percent from 2010, but the median income—the amount in the middle of all Americans’ incomes and not skewed by ultra-high salaries — fell 5 percent, the report said.

Only a sliver of the wealthiest Americans have seen widespread income gains since the recession ...

http://www.ibtimes.com/us-income-gap-widened-during-economic-recovery-federal-reserve-1679000

The gap between the rich and the poor keeps widening, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) says.

In its 34 member states, the richest 10% of the population earn 9.6 times the income of the poorest 10%.

There is no standard measure of inequality, but most indicators suggest it slowed or fell during the financial crisis and is now growing again.

The OECD warns that such inequality is a threat to economic growth ...

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-32824770

The wealth disparity between upper and middle income Americans has hit a record high, according to a new Pew Research Center Report. On average, today’s upper-income families are almost seven times wealthier than middle-income ones, compared to 3.4 times wealthier in 1984. When compared to lower income family wealth, upper income family wealth is 70 times larger.

It has come to the point where only the top 10 percent of Americans are seeing their wealth grow while the bottom 90 get less and less of the pie each year. The driving force of this wealth chasm are the top 0.1 percent, who have seen their share of the nation’s wealth grow the most over the past decades, from 7 percent in 1979 to 22 percent today. In fact, the top 0.1 percent are now worth more than the entire bottom 90 percent of the U.S. population, according to the report, which adjusts for the shrinking size of the American family so as to enable comparisons across time periods.

The study also assesses what effect the 2008 financial crisis had on wealth distribution. Although the crisis wreaked havoc across all income levels, its effects have been much more enduring for those on the lower end of the economic spectrum. Those at the top have managed to recoup their wealth, while middle and lower income families have not made any gains, according to the Pew report. The stock market, on the other hand, has bounced back, surpassing pre-crisis levels, and Wall Street is doing better than ever ...

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/12/18/3605137/us-wealth-gap-at-its-widest-in-decades/