Inequality matters : the growing economic divide in America and its poisonous consequences /
"Since the 1970s, the U.S. economy has been sending more and more of its rewards to fewer and fewer people. Once seen as a global exemplar of egalitarianism and middle-class opportunity, America has become the most unequal of developed nations--a land where corporate leaders earn hundreds of ti...
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New York :
New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton,
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Table of Contents:
- The fight of our lives / Bill Moyers
- What's the problem? / James Lardner
- What the numbers tell us / Heather Boushey and Christian E. Weller
- Earth to Wal-Mars / Barbara Ehrenreich
- The return of "separate but equal" / Richard D. Kahlenberg
- The snowball and the treadmill / Miezhu Lui
- Shredding the retirement contract / David A. Smith and Heather McGhee
- The growing college gap / Tamara Draut
- Cold truths about class, race, and health / David R. Williams and James Lardner
- Of the few, by the few, for the few / Charles Lewis
- Why do so many jobs pay so badly? / Christopher Jencks
- How the middle class is injured by gains at the top / Robert H. Frank
- The vanishing commons / Jonathan Rowe
- The great tax shift / David Cay Johnston
- America disconnected / Theda Skocpol
- Corporations unbound / Joel Bakan
- A self-perpetuating trend? / Eric Wanner
- Who is the elite? / Betsy Leondar-Wright
- Don't drink the kool-aid / Robert Kuttner
- The legitimization of inequality / Robert M. Franklin
- Building a moral economy / William Greider
- A prophetic politics / Jim Wallis
- Democracy first / Miles S. Rapoport and David A. Smith.