Income inequality gets short shrift from Obama in speech

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President Obama might spend this year focused on attacking income inequality, but that wasn’t immediately clear from the laundry list of domestic priorities he laid out Tuesday during his State of the Union address.

Obama did raise the issue during his 65-minute speech before a joint session of Congress. But it was just one of many that Obama discussed, running counter to expectations that income inequality would function as the overarching theme of the president’s fifth State of the Union address. Rather, it was one of just many items Obama vowed to deal with in the critical election year ahead.

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