Fairness as a Point of View....

"Our differing notions of fairness is one of the biggest causes of the divide facing the United States today. And yet, a better understanding of fairness may just well be the bridge that helps heal our country."

Excellent essay on Fairness by Gideon Rosenblatt on his blog AlchemyOfChange.net

U.S. Income Inequality Grows?

Our Banana Republic

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

The richest 1 percent of Americans now take home almost 24 percent of income, up from almost 9 percent in 1976. As Timothy Noah of Slate noted in an excellent series on inequality, the United States now arguably has a more unequal distribution of wealth than traditional banana republics like Nicaragua, Venezuela and Guyana.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/07/opinion/07kristof.html