21.   He said that preserving Social Security and expanding other retirement income programs were critical to helping close the income gap between men and women.

22.   He worries, too, about both the widening income gap and the information gap in which the computer illiterate are increasingly left behind.

23.   If their actual earnings were counted, the income gap would look even worse.

24.   In an important new study, the Congressional Budget Office, combining Census and Internal Revenue Service data, charts nearly two decades of widening income gaps among us.

25.   In a nation where the income gap is widening, this budget will make the rich a bit richer, the poor a bit poorer.

26.   In a wide-ranging conversation, Gore also asserted that the Clinton administration has begun to close the income gap between rich and poor.

27.   In light of data showing that the income gap between whites and blacks had not significantly improved, Williams said.

28.   In order to justify their demands for huge new tax breaks for wealthy individuals and corporations, they pooh-pooh the income gap as of no consequence at all.

29.   Many recipients find themselves bouncing between part-time or temporary jobs, suffering income gaps that planners failed to anticipate.

30.   Market forces would place a check on the exploding income gap that Silver foresees.