Obama’s Shallow Inequality Speech And The Presidency That Might Have Been

By Ben Domenech
If income inequality is the defining challenge of our time, why did President Obama spend so much time on policies unrelated to it? Why did he go down a policy path which led in the opposite direction? And why, even today, is he bypassing any possibility of brokering a bipartisan effort to combat “the defining challenge” and instead prioritizing a clumsy, tired, politically dead-end solution – minimum wage hikes – which without question has a negative effect on low-skill job creation while aiding his powerful union allies? Read more at the Federalist...