While the pandemic crushed dreams, shuttered businesses, closed schools and left millions jobless, the wealthy reaped a bonanza and watched their net worth more than double. They became richer while the poor got poorer. Already at historic heights before the pandemic, wealth inequality by many measures now is worse than during the Gilded Age, dividing the country into haves and have-nots. And that endangers us all by cutting social mobility, killing dreams, reducing opportunity, increasing crime and empowering authoritarians. In this episode, Common Ground with Jane Whitney examines the consequences of the stark cleavage, the values that drive economic policy and the connections between our political and economic crises.