WASHINGTON. – The gap between the poor and the rich sharply increases. According to the research of the Economic Policy Institute, over the past 50 years in the U.S. wealth gap between the rich and the citizens with the average income increased by 2.3 times.

Hence, as the research claims, income of the average family income was reduced to $ 57,000 in 2010, as compared to $73,000 in 1983.

One of the most important conclusions of the research is that tendency of increasing income gap between the rich and the poor has sharpen significantly during the current crisis.