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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Corporate Author: Dēmos (Organization : U.S.)
Other Authors: Lardner, James, Smith, David A. (David Alden), 1956-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, [2005].
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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.