"The Only People Doing Well in This Economy, Writes Quart, Are the Already Wealthy"

"'The United States is the richest and also the most unequal country in the world,' she writes. 'It has the largest wealth inequality gap of the 200 countries in the [Credit Suisse Research Institute's] Global Wealth Report of 2015. And when the top 1 percent has so much—so much more than even the top 5 or 10 percent—the middle class is financially and also mentally outclassed at each step.'"

Larry Getlen at the New York Post discusses Alissa Quart's book, Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America.