Invisible poor, the land of the free

"I work as a night auditor and a bellhop at a small hotel, here in San Jose. And I've been in the National Guard for 15 years. About six months, I've been living here in the car. I divorced my wife recently, and I ended up like this from complications from the divorce. There aren't always beds at the shelter, but I can park outside and use the shower and get mail and get food. "I …

…'s the income of the top one percent of U.S. families enormously climbed 78 percent. The middle fifth disturbingly went down 5.3 percent. (2) Or how about the fact that the United States has the largest income gap between the rich and the poor, being 11 to 1, amoung the industrialized nations. (3) That gap is ever-increasing and if we keep failing to acknowledge the problem it will get worse making it increasingly difficult to live in an egual nation.