evidence: - Proposals to reduce inequality include a more progressive income tax, a higher minimum wage, and expanded educational opportunities. [...] "We should want to live in a society with a reasonable degree of mobility rather than one where people are born into relative economic positions they can never leave," conservative analyst Ramesh Ponnuru wrote in 2015. "But so long as those conditions are met, the ratio of the incomes of the top 1 percent to the median worker should be fairly low on our list of concerns." [...] Proposals put forward in recent years to address income and wealth inequality have included supporting unionization and raising the minimum wage; making the tax code more progressive, as well as taxing wealth alongside income; and increasing access to education, including early education and college.