Journalists, nonprofit leaders and political analysts from across the political aisle discussed the politics of inequality and the role that the issue could play in the 2016 presidential elections in a conversation at the Aspen Ideas Festival this year:

• Michael Gerson, a columnist for The Washington Post and a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush

• Jim Wallis, founder and president of Sojourners, a nonprofit faith-based social justice organization

• Angela Glover Blackwell, founder and CEO of PolicyLink, an organization that advocates for low-income families and communities