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A formerly homeless veteran ekes out just enough to live by picking through the trash of billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg on the streets of San Francisco and selling the designer jeans and high-end housewares he finds.

U.S.C. students jet to Bali for spring break, while some of their classmates work overnight shifts to pay for books.

Recently, my colleagues Thomas Fuller and Jennifer Medina wrote articles about the symptoms of California’s vast and growing economic inequality.

That’s a major, vexing topic in the state, though hardly unexplored.

Still, they seemed to strike a particular chord with readers — hundreds of whom emailed, tweeted and commented on each.