And the Chief Medical Officer found the gap between the rich and poor has actually widened in recent years.
Globally, the gap between the rich and the poor has actually been narrowing, as poorer countries are growing faster.
Fifteen percent cited the growing gap between the rich and the poor, while 10% cited health care and 7% the deficit.
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Today, the factories are gone, the average citizen earns more than the average European, and the gap between the rich and the poor is vast and widening.
The ANC has also come under mounting criticism for ineffective responses to the country's biggest problems, such as high unemployment and the widening gap between the rich and the poor.
In doing so we must identify the innovations that narrow the gap between the rich and poor are truly the drivers that will fix this broken circumstance we face today.
At first sight, a photo of emaciated children in developing countries alongside obese people in the West might seem like an apt way to illustrate the massive gap between the rich and the poor.
Although Mr Kneese was by nature a warmly friendly man there is in much of his writing a sense of anxiety about the future, and of the growing gap between the rich and the poor.
It supports the development of common strategies, methods and tools to build inclusive, open and pluralistic knowledge societies and to narrow the gap between the information rich and the information poor.
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The gap between the rich world and the poor one is still at its most glaring in the young.
One of the organisers of the referendum, Brigitte Moser Harder, told the BBC she thought the Swiss people agreed with the proposals because the gap between rich and poor had become wider.
The new restrictions coincide with a pledge by the government to tackle the growing and politically sensitive gap between rich and poor in the country.
Substantial evidence shows the greatest increase ever in the gap between rich and poor in the past three decades or so.
One of the strange and unintended consequences of targeting the rich with more taxes will be a greater gap between the rich and the poor.
Will the welfare reforms widen or narrow the gap between rich and poor communities in the UK?
The raising of issues like child labour and the widening gap between rich and poor may further embarrass the Indian Government.
Liu has sounded themes of economic disparity on the campaign trail, noting that the income gap between the city's rich and poor has grown in recent years, and he also has emphasized his grasp of the city's finances as comptroller and a trained actuary.
The report suggests Londoners' loneliness could, in part, be created by the gap between rich and poor in the city.
So as income inequality grew, the government propped up spending by promoting easy credit for less wealthy Americans, and much of the profit from that easy credit fed the wealth of the richest, widening the gap between rich and poor yet further.
They must reject a slash-and-burn approach that will make the gap between rich and poor in the golden state ever more extreme.
Mr Clegg argued that life chances could not be evened out simply by reducing inequality, pointing to Australia and Canada as examples of countries with a similar gap between the rich and the poor as the UK but much better levels of social mobility.
They have both promised to boost social welfare spending, close the gap between the rich and poor and rein in the country's family-run giant conglomerates, known as chaebol.
The gap between the ultra rich and the middle class and poor is enormous.
In addition to stretching the gap between rich and poor, the non-gold monetary system had one other notable consequence.
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In most advanced economies the gap between rich and poor in the 1970s was a lot narrower than it had been in the 1920s.
In fact, according to studies undertaken by the World Bank, economic growth, far from widening inequality, has reduced the gap between rich and poor within and between provinces, as well as lifting millions above the poverty line.
Sao Paulo's inhabitants suffer from a high degree of urban paranoia stemming from the knowledge of the huge gap between rich and poor in Brazil, and the underclass that this creates.
The gap between rich and poor widened more in the three years to 2010 than in the previous 12 years, the OECD group of industrialised nations has said.
All three top countries all had a considerable gap between the rich and the poor, however, with the top 20% of the population earning between four and six times as much as the bottom 20%.
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Thailand still has its problems, and the King has long agonized about how to make society fairer, even as the World Bank calculates that Thailand has the biggest gap between rich and poor in Asia.
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