America's income inequality could be impacting more than just our bottom lines.
Psychotherapist Janna Malamud Smith told HuffPost Live that as the wealth gap increases in the United States, it's actually affecting our mental health. Smith said that families and friend circles that have an unusually wealthy person in their group often find the disparity straining their relationships and that it sometimes leads them to grow apart.
"Never before have we had a possibility that people in the middle class or upper middle class will know some of those people in the 1 percent," Smith told HuffPost Live's Alyona Minkovski. "The disparity will be so big that it will seem absolutely matter of fact for one person to go for a $50 dinner while the other person really hurts if they go out for a $15 dinner. I don't think we know how to have that conversation yet."
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