Inequality matters
Subtitle: the growing economic divide in America and its poisonous consequences
By: edited by James Lardner and David A. Smith
Contributors: Dēmos (Organization : U.S.)
Publisher: New Press; Distributed by W.W. Norton
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781565849952; 9781595581754
Subjects: Equality; Ongelijkheid; Income distribution; Economic conditions; Einkommensverteilung; Social conditions; Soziale Ungleichheit; Inkomensverdeling; Wirtschaftliche Lage
Notes: "Published in collaboration with Demos."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-321).
Table of contents: title: The fight of our lives / Bill Moyers; title: What's the problem? / James Lardner; title: What the numbers tell us / Heather Boushey and Christian E. Weller; title: Earth to Wal-Mars / Barbara Ehrenreich; title: The return of "separate but equal" / Richard D. Kahlenberg; title: The snowball and the treadmill / Miezhu Lui; title: Shredding the retirement contract / David A. Smith and Heather McGhee; title: The growing college gap / Tamara Draut; title: Cold truths about class, race, and health / David R. Williams and James Lardner; title: Of the few, by the few, for the few / Charles Lewis; title: Why do so many jobs pay so badly? / Christopher Jencks; title: How the middle class is injured by gains at the top / Robert H. Frank; title: The vanishing commons / Jonathan Rowe; title: The great tax shift / David Cay Johnston; title: America disconnected / Theda Skocpol; title: Corporations unbound / Joel Bakan; title: A self-perpetuating trend? / Eric Wanner; title: Who is the elite? / Betsy Leondar-Wright; title: Don't drink the kool-aid / Robert Kuttner; title: The legitimization of inequality / Robert M. Franklin; title: Building a moral economy / William Greider; title: A prophetic politics / Jim Wallis; title: Democracy first / Miles S. Rapoport and David A. Smith.