**Chuck Collins**, director of the Institute for Policy Studies Program on Inequality and the Common Good, and journalist **Linda McQuaig** explore the impact of the growing wealth gap, and suggest ways to reverse the increase in economic inequality. The richest one percent of Americans now owns more than 36 percent of all the wealth in the United States, more than the net worth of the bottom 95 percent combined. In 2010, the one percent earned 21 percent of all income, up from only 8 percent in mid-1970s. How has this concentration of wealth come about? What does it mean for the health of American democracy? And for the well-being of Americans? How could the trend of increasing economic inequality be reversed? Where is the political will to make the necessary policy changes? How can an individual nation create economic conditions that overcome what some call a global race to the bottom?