The phrase "mounting inequalities" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an increasing or growing disparity or difference, often in a social, economic, or political context.
Example: "The report highlights the mounting inequalities in access to education across different regions."
Alternatives: "growing disparities" or "increasing inequalities."
In reality, she says, they "obscure problems of wages, access to work and mounting inequality".
But undoing the forces that have created a generation of mounting inequality will not easily give way to incremental solutions.
Polls indicate that the majority of Americans, like the Wall Street protesters, believe that higher taxes on the rich are warranted both to reduce the deficit and to contain mounting inequality.
The gathering force of public protests is the popular expression of an obvious fact: that growing economic uncertainty, market volatility and mounting inequality have reached a point of crisis.
"Mounting inequality of wealth and opportunity has turned the United States into the country with the greatest degree of economic polarization in the developed world.... Our nation's transition to an information-based, service-oriented economy has produced levels of wealth and income inequality not seen here since the 1920's".
The Great Crisis of 2008-09 and its aftermath was an extraordinary shock to China's external markets and ever-mounting internal imbalances -- excess resource consumption, environmental degradation and pollution, mounting income inequalities, and a fear-driven surge of precautionary saving -- suggested the old model was running out of time.
But today's level of inequality is unusual by American historical and global standards alike, and, as Stiglitz notes, evidence is mounting that inequality at the levels we've reached stifles growth and employment.
Critics argue that repealing the estate tax would exacerbate the mounting income inequality in the United States, but sophisticated estate planning already blunts the tax's ability to counteract that trend.
There is mounting evidence that inequality leads to bankruptcies and to financial panics.
Evidence is mounting, however, that inequality itself is obstructing Americans' shot at a better life.
