(CNN) -- President Barack Obama knows we live in a two-tiered America. In July, the president, who is himself an example of how anyone can or should be able make it in the Land of the Free, went on the road to make the point over and over again that the nation's widening gap between rich and poor is tearing at the very fabric of society. "Even though our businesses are creating new jobs and have broken record profits," the president said in prepared remarks delivered in Illinois, "nearly all the income gains of the past 10 years have continued to flow to the top 1%."
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CNNMoney reports interns at the White House are unpaid
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John Sutter: Unpaid internships contribute America's rich-poor gap
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He says the White House should set a better example for other employers
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Sutter: "... we're just encouraging the rich-poor gap to grow"
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