making the kind of commitments to investing in economic opportunity you remember in one thousand nine hundred eighty we had ronald reagan came in and they were both tax cuts for the rich and also a kind of a shift in priorities so i think that that's you could kind of be the beginning of those policy changes that then led to really thirty years of growing inequality and a piece of the story behind that graph i think is the middle class so if there were if the wealthiest one percent share of wealth more than doubled over those thirty years what happened to the share of wealth owned by the middle and that's where that's where when people say the middle class is shrinking or collapsing that's an active description that the incomes the share of income that went to the middle has has declined and that's so that's the other piece of that story and that's where the income went and went for the top walter mosley was on this program last week and he made what i thought was a really interesting...