Mind the gap

Roland Merullo has a column in today's Globe on the gap between the haves and have-nots in America. He writes,

...it is both morally repugnant and socially destabilizing to encourage too wide a gap between the working and investment classes, the poor and the rich. More than any other single factor, it is government policies -- the philosophies and actions of the people we elect -- that determine the size of that gap.

Merullo grew up in Revere and is the author of Revere Beach Boulevard, Revere Beach Elegy and In Revere, In Those Days, among other books.