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

Other author/creatorLardner, James.
Other author/creatorSmith, David A. (David Alden), 1956-
Other author/creatorDēmos (Organization : U.S.)
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoNew York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, ©2005.
Descriptionvi, 328 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Subject(s)
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.
General note"Published in collaboration with Demos."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [281]-321).
LCCN 2005052237
ISBN1565849957

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