Bill Moyers: Planned Inequality - Inequality of income was planned years ago.

http://billmoyers.com/segment/jacob-hacker-paul-pierson-on-engineered-inequality/

The Rich get Richer and the middle class pay the Rich more and more but get less and less for themselves.  This tells the hows and whys this happened.  Today, the only way to get more money for the middle class is to work more hours.