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Title Inequality matters : the growing economic divide in America and its poisonous consequences / edited by James Lardner and David A. Smith.

Imprint New York : New Press, c2005.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  339.2 In3 2005    ---  Available
Description vi, 328 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Note "Published in collaboration with Demos."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-321).
Contents 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 -- Return of "separate but equal" / Richard D. Kahlenberg -- Snowball and the treadmill / Miezhu Lui -- Shredding the retirement contract / David A. Smith and Heather McGhee -- 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 -- Vanishing commons / Jonathan Rowe -- Great tax shift / David Cay Johnston -- America disconnected / Theda Skocpol -- Corporations unbound / Joel Bakan -- Self-perpetuating trend? / Eric Wanner -- Who is the elite? / Betsy Leondar-Wright -- Don't drink the kool-aid / Robert Kuttner -- Legitimization of inequality / Robert M. Franklin -- Building a moral economy / William Greider -- Prophetic politics / Jim Wallis -- Democracy first / Miles S. Rapoport and David A. Smith.
Subject Income distribution -- Social aspects -- United States.
Equality -- Economic aspects -- United States.
United States -- Economic conditions -- 2001-
United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
Added Author Lardner, James.
Smith, David A. (David Alden), 1956-
Demos (Organization : U.S.)
ISBN 1565849957
9781565849952
9781595581754 (pbk.)
1595581758 (pbk.)
Standard No. NLGGC 28348747X
IG# 1565849957
YDXCP 2169162
NZ1 9981494

 
    
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