Key issues in the US presidential campaign
Social justice
Wealth in the US is distributed extremely unequally. Californian researchers calculated that the richest 1 percent of Americans own as much as the bottom 90 percent. It thus seems unlikely that the US will ever have a social welfare system like Europe. But with Bernie Sanders, this year's campaign has a candidate with a strong focus on wealth and income inequality issues.
Author: Christoph Ricking/mik