So you see a great divergence where the wealthier states are growing faster and the poorer states are growing slower - so the gap between the rich and the poor is widening.
Investors are moving more money than ever before out of stocks and into bonds, widening a valuation gap and convincing the biggest money managers that now is the time to buy equities.
The gaps among countries are widening, suggesting that robust recoveries in northern European nations such as Germany aren't spreading south or to Ireland.
While more people are living longer and healthier lives, gaps are widening between the rich and the poor in some nations and tens of millions of people are vulnerable to food and water shortages.
High school degrees offer far less in the way of preparation for work than they might, or than many other nations currently offer, creating a growing skills gap in our economy.
Ripley indulges a popular obsession with international test score comparisons, which show wide and frightening gaps between the United States and other countries.
And since then there been at least 2 iterations of further stop gap measures, first European community adopted and then American are doing much the training.
The statement informed them that their pensions were being cut. The reductions come as a stop-gap measure to control Germany's ballooning pension crisis.1
But not nearly as raw as they did half a century ago, when even in Europe some women did not have the vote, discrimination was rife, women's jobs were second-class and the pay gap was huge.