claim: "thanks to president bush's policies....the income gap is now higher than at any time since the great depression."
author: hillary clinton
evidence_1: dec 14, 2007 ... hillary clinton has been counting the ways president bush boosted the economic fortunes of the rich at the expense of the poor and middle class, and she offers this ... under bush, the disparity between the very rich and the rest of us has risen to its highest level since the great depression, government and ...
evidence_2: the clinton years saw the top bracket hold steady at a higher rate of 39.6%, but under the younger bush's tax-cut policies, the rich are once again paying less. .... trickle down economics has been around since reghan was president in never worked then and now look at the damage its done to the middle class that's what it ...
evidence_3: however, it also produced a sharp jump in real interest rates that contributed to the brutal recession of 1981 to 1982. the national unemployment rate exceeded 10% throughout 1982, rendering more americans jobless than at any time since the great depression. not coincidentally, president reagan's public approval ...
evidence_4: the economic policy of the barack obama administration was characterized by moderate tax increases on higher income americans designed to fund healthcare reform, reduce the federal budget deficit, and improve income inequality. his first term (2009–2013) included measures designed to address the great recession ...
evidence_5: aug 12, 2017 ... the most important pieces of american social policy — the minimum wage, union rights, social security and even the g.i. bill — created during and just after the great depression, conferred enormous benefits on whites while excluding most southern blacks. southern democrats in congress did this by ...