“When I go to the grocery store, I see the people who are sleeping in shifts. We see the gap continuing to widen between the uppermost levels of income earners and the rest.” If you want to get an idea of how today’s income equality gap is different, spend a few days skiing in a popular resort town and notice the one thing you won’t find there. Locals. The NYT: Precipitous Rents in Ski Country Push Workers to Edges.