Income inequality grows

When adjusted for inflation, the average real income for the top 20 percent of Americans rose 10 percent from 2010 to 2013. Real income for the 40 percent below that, the middle class and upper middle class, barely budged, meaning they didn’t recover the losses they’d experienced during the recession. The poorest people, the bottom 20 percent, not only didn’t make up their losses from the recession, they continued to lose ground.

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Vigil to Be Held for Grandmother ‘Accidentally’ Shot and Killed by Chicago Police

A vigil will be held this afternoon for a 55-year-old woman who Chicago police say was “accidentally” shot and killed by an officer when police responded to a domestic disturbance early Saturday.

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