Does America have an income inequality problem or an opportunity problem?

Actually, they're the same thing

Income inequality or opportunity gap?
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Should the fight against inequality be the Democrats' defining cause? The party's rising tribe of left-wing economic populists — headed up by Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) — would answer with a resounding "yes."

But another tribe in the party has very different ideas.

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Jeff Spross

Jeff Spross was the economics and business correspondent at TheWeek.com. He was previously a reporter at ThinkProgress.