Sep 27, 2013 By Chris Tinkham

In conceptualizing a documentary about today’s widening income inequality among U.S. citizens, filmmaker Jacob Kornbluth, who was born in the early 1970s, reflected on his own upbringing and how his mother raised a family of four, on her own, with less than $15,000 a year—in some years, much less than that. Kornbluth, knowing that the topic of his film, Inequality for All, was abstract and that viewers would be hit with a barrage of facts and figures, understood that its narrative needed personalizing, so he brought in a central character: political economist and professor Robert Reich, who served as Secretary of Labor during Bill Clinton’s first presidential term. More