Divided: The Perils of Our Growing Inequality

Amazon.com Price: $14.55 (as of 11/10/2019 14:19 PST- Details)

Description

Praised as a “page-turner…just the type of spotlight that may be needed” (Counterpunch) and “a potent chronicle of The usa’s ‘extreme inequality’” (Kirkus Reviews), Divided collects the writings of leading scholars, activists, and journalists—including Elizabeth Warren, President Barack Obama, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Paul Krugman, and Barbara Ehrenreich—to provide an illuminating, multifaceted look at one of the vital pressing issues facing The usa today.

According to Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist David Cay Johnston, most Americans, in inflation-adjusted terms, are now back to the average income of 1966. Shockingly, from 2009 to 2011 a third of the entire increased income in a land of 300 million people went to just 30,000 of them, whilst the bottom 90 percent saw their income fall. Yet in this most unequal of developed nations, each and every aspect of inequality remains hotly contested and poorly understood.

Exploring areas as diverse as education, justice, health care, social mobility, and political representation, here is an essential resource—“an indispensable guide to the causes and effects of the growing wealth gap” (World Wide Work)—for any individual who cares about the way forward for The usa and compelling evidence that inequality may also be ignored no longer.
Home » Shop » Books » Subjects » Politics and Social Sciences » Politics and Government » Specific Topics » Commentary and Opinion » Divided: The Perils of Our Growing Inequality

Recent Products