“It bothers me that statistically the greatest predictor of a child’s financial security in the United States is the financial circumstances of their parents,” said Carville, a former CNN contributor.
Income inequality is likely to be a central theme in the 2016 presidential elections. Last year the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found that Americans at the top of the income scale saw their incomes soar by 200% between 1979 and 2011, while incomes for those further down rose between 40% and 67%.
Related: How much it takes to get into the top 1%
Better than 6 years ago? Rove and Carville debated the overall health of Obama’s economy.
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