Wealth gap

Those at the top have an increasingly bigger share, while middle and low incomes stagnate.

Jean Cotis and Rob Wininger both earn in the top 25 percent. They reflect on their economic choices and reasons for income disparity in the U.S.

Courtney Kimsey and Jacqueline Byers, in their own words, on how their families manage on the median American income.

When you look at net wealth instead of income, the gap between the 1 percent and the 99 grows exponentially.

A Pew survey says Americans now think the conflict between rich and poor is more important than between whites and blacks or immigrants and the native-born.