U.S. national debate topic, 2023-2024. Wealth & income inequality /
In 2023, the United States had the highest level of income and wealth inequality of all the developed nations of the world, with the bottom fifty percent of workers controlling only two percent of the nation's wealth overall. While wealth inequality has been a core political and economic issue...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Amenia, New York :
Grey House Publishing,
2023.
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| Series: | Reference shelf ;
v. 95, no. 3. |
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| Summary: | In 2023, the United States had the highest level of income and wealth inequality of all the developed nations of the world, with the bottom fifty percent of workers controlling only two percent of the nation's wealth overall. While wealth inequality has been a core political and economic issue in America from the very beginning, each generation also grapples with emerging ideas about how to address this perennial economic justice issue and, in 2023, as inflation and rising costs of living brought this issue to a head again, economists, politicians and American citizens were increasingly asking if radical solutions might we warranted in order to expand access to the American Dream. This volume of Reference Shelf introduces the idea of wealth distribution through tax restructuring, regulations on corporate profits, minimum wage laws and more radical potential solutions like the establishment of a universal basic income. Articles from American periodicals, blogs and magazines introduce readers to the various aspects of this debate and will tie the income inequality debate of the 2020s to the historic American struggle for economic equity. |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 182 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-178) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781637004968 1637004966 9781637004937 1637004931 |