Obama: Income inequality a defining challenge

Thursday, December 5, 2013

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama prodded Congress to raise wages and secure the social safety net as he issued an overarching appeal Wednesday to correct inequalities that he said make it harder for a child in the United States to escape poverty.

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