Research suggests extreme wealth disparity can have a negative impact on health and wellbeing.

But the extent of the wealth disparities created by the downturn comes as a shock.

Wealth disparities are increasingly visible.

Welfare reform has coincided with massive growth in income and wealth disparities; it has done little to slow the expansion of inequality and may have actually accelerated the trend.

The same arguments that justify wealth disparities based on individual talents, efforts, or achievements, moreover, can not support the same disparities where they result from the dead hand.