That's How It Goes...

... and everybody knows: In the words of Leonard Cohen, 'the poor get poor and the rich get rich.'

I forgot where I found this, but a series of fifteen charts highlights the growing gap between the rich and the poor in this country. It shows, among other things, that we are no better today than we were in 1972, and that our peers such as France are closing the gap as we are widening it.

And since a picture is worth a thousand words, here's a sample: