In combination, the evidence on market-income inequality and attitudes towards redistribution provides a useful basis for speculating whether redistribution is now “more urgent” than 20 years ago. The widening gaps between low-income and high-income groups would indicate that reducing inequalities among working-age households has indeed become a more pressing concern. At the same time, Figure 2 suggests that preferences for reducing inequalities have weakened over the past 20 years or so in just under half of the countries shown (Canada, Finland, United Kingdom and United States).