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Help Close Income Gap, Reich Urges Business: Labor Secretary Robert Reich is urging private business to help correct the widening income gap between rich and poor, saying the disparity threatens to “rip our society apart.” Speaking to a meeting of the Financial Women’s Assn. of New York, Reich said that since 1978 “almost all the increase in average family income . . . has gone to the top fifth” of the U.S. population.
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