美国总统巴拉克·奥巴马上月在美国发展中心的一次演讲中宣称，经济不平等是“我们这个时代的决定性挑战”。

Economic inequality is the "defining challenge of our time", President Barack Obama declared in a speech last month to the Center for American Progress.

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并非巧合的是，不断增长的金融业时代也是收入与财富不平等现象不断增长的时代。

Not coincidentally, the era of an ever-growing financial industry was also an era of ever-growing inequality of income and wealth.

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上周高工资委员会警告说，我们正迅速跌回雾都孤儿的不平等时代。

Last week, the High Pay Commission warned that we were rocketing back towards the inequality of the Oliver Twist era.

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