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Economic apartheid in America
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Chuck Collins |
"Economic Apartheid in America examines recent changes in income and wealth distribution, as well as the economic policies and shifts in power that have fueled the growing divide.
Focusing on the de… |
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Falling behind
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Robert H. Frank |
Although middle-income families don't earn much more than they did several decades ago, they are buying bigger cars, houses, and appliances. To pay for them, they spend more than they earn and carry … |
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The speech
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Bernard Sanders |
Presents the Vermont Senator's speech from December 10, 2010, in which he spoke for eight and a half hours to call to action the middle class in an effort to save themselves by becoming informed, org… |
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What Unions No Longer Do
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Jake Rosenfeld |
From workers' wages to presidential elections, labor unions once exerted tremendous clout in American life. In the immediate post-World War II era, one in three workers belonged to a union. The fract… |
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The occupy movement
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Stefan Kiesbye |
A collection of sixteen essays that explore various issues related to the Occupy Movement. |
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Illusions of prosperity
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Joel Blau |
"In Illusions of Prosperity, Blau launches a far-reaching assault on the idea that "the market" knows best. Blau writes that while the share of the national income held by the bottom four-fifths of t… |
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The age of acquiescence
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Steve Fraser |
"From the American Revolution through the Civil Rights movement, Americans have long mobilized against political, social, and economic privilege. Hierarchies based on inheritance, wealth, and politic… |
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What then must we do?
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Gar Alperovitz |
"Never before have so many Americans been more frustrated with our economic system, more fearful that it is failing, or more open to fresh ideas about a new one. The seeds of a new economy--and, if w… |
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Runaway inequality
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Les Leopold |
"Runaway inequality is now America's most critical economic fact of life. In 1970, the ratio of pay between the top 100 CEOs and the average worker was 45 to 1. Today it is a shocking 829 to one! Dur… |
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Requiem for the American dream
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Noam Chomsky |
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! In his first major book on the subject of income inequality, Noam Chomsky skewers the fundamental tenets of neoliberalism and casts a clear, cold, patient eye on the econ… |
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Plutocracy in America
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Ronald P. Formisano |
"The growing gap between the most affluent Americans and the rest of society is changing the country into one defined--more than almost any other developed nation--by exceptional inequality of income… |
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Equity, Growth, and Community
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Chris Benner |
In the last several years, much has been written about growing economic challenges, increasing income inequality, and political polarization in the United States. Addressing these new realities in Am… |
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Economic inequality and policy control in the United States
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Mark Stelzner |
The income share of the top one percent of the population in the United States has increased from a little over nine percent of national income in the 1970s to 22.46 percent in 2012- a 144 percent in… |
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Who stole the American dream?
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Hedrick Smith |
Recounts how the American dream has been dismantled over the past forty years by legislative, electoral, and corporate decisions that have compromised the middle class and minimized individual econom… |
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National health insurance and income distribution
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Rita M. Keintz |
xvii, 218 pages : 23 cm |
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Does Atlas Shrug? The Economic Consequences of Taxing the Rich
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Joel B. Slemrod |
524 p. : 25 cm |
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