Economist Robert Reich, who says the great income disparities in the United States are to blame for the sluggish economic recovery: “Unless we understand the relationship between the extraordinary concentration of income and wealth we have this in country and the failure of the economy to rebound, we are going to be destined for many, many years of high unemployment, anemic job recoveries and then periods of booms and busts that may even dwarf what we just had.” (Photo: Henry Ray Abrams/AP)