So much for the "widening digital divide" decried by such organisations as the United Nations Development Programme.
My fellow conservatives and Republicans have tended not to worry very much about the widening of income inequalities.
The president has made much of the widening gulf between the wealthiest Americans and everybody else, as well as a tax code that makes Warren E. Buffett's secretary pay proportionally higher taxes than the billionaire investor himself.
Investors have grown wary about the outlook for interest rates, so much of the widening of discounts has been in bond funds, which account for about 60 percent of closed-end fund assets.
BHF Bank's Denninghoff said that the financial sector bailout packages announced in the United States, and later around the world, had not done much to ease the widening of credit-default swap spreads.
In the 1980s the gulf between the top and bottom 20% widened by a full 60% – much the most dramatic widening of income differences on record.
Yet the name of the bridge, like other things, was chosen without much debate, widening the gap between the rulers and the ruled.
But taxes don't seem to have much to do with the widening income gap, and (aside from the earned income tax credit) don't do much to help those locked in pathologies of poverty at the bottom of the socio-economic ladder.
How much technology has contributed to the widening income gap in the U.S. is a matter of debate; some economists treat it as just one factor, others treat it as the determining factor.
"If the state was to offer universities funds that institutions would be expected to match to create targeted scholarships, that would have a much more beneficial effect on the widening participation group than offering them a further credit facility," said Strike.
