Re Jobs: The divide is not exclusive to the one percent, it is the most obvious and it is enormous of course.  Those with high demand and high wage skills are also benefiting and moving up and away from the rest in the USA.  This group of workers is highly mobile; they are able to quit jobs to go where pay or benefits or both are better.  Over one million jobs go unfilled because they require a high level of skills, there is no lack of high end jobs.

The one percent gets all the headlines, but in truth, the divide starts with the upper middle class, everyone else is being left behind.