Nor are the rich more generous when it comes to giving to those other than family. Millionaires also are happy to accept subsidies from other taxpayers. Sixty percent take mortgage deductions. A few even take child-care credits and deduct moving expenses from taxes. Physicians have held the best-paying jobs for most of this century, Hacker notes.
College professors are even more unequal.
And even full professors are split. Hacker shows how this trend toward heightened inequality has spread throughout the economy. Perhaps the most glaring example involves race. But this happened because blacks in the middle moved up, not because the bottom changed. And blacks are still often shut out of higher-wage occupations.