Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 339.20973 EAN: 9781595581754 ISBN: 1595581758 Label: New Press Manufacturer: New Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 336 Publication Date: August 01, 2007 Publisher: New Press Sales Rank: 707607 Studio: New Press
Product DescriptionThe inequality compendium hailed by Knight-Ridder as a 'must-read for everyone who hopes to see equal opportunity restored to its rightful place in the American dream.'
'Astonishing as it seems, scarcely anyone in official Washington seems to be troubled by a gap between rich and poor that is greater than it has been in half a century—and greater than that of any other Western nation today.'—from the foreword by Bill Moyers
The critically acclaimed Inequality Matters found a wide and appreciative audience among those who see growing inequality as a 'toxic state of affairs' (Sojourners) that imperils the health of the United States. Inequality is, many believe, the single most important domestic issue we face.
Inequality Matters includes a range of progressives, activists, writers, and academics—among them Barbara Ehrenreich, Christopher Jencks, Meizhu Lui, David Cay Johnston, and Jim Wallis—whose nuanced and sharply argued essays do much to illuminate the growing divergence between the haves and the can't haves. Called 'excellent' by the New York Review of Books, Inequality Matters paints a readable and crucial portrait of the widening wealth and opportunity gaps while we drift, as Lardner writes, 'toward a Third World-like distribution of our riches.'
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Rating: - Inequality is worldwide. Is it human evil or human nature?
The message of "Inequality Matters" is that inequality is a man-made phenomenon, especially egregious in the United States, that demands to be redressed through public policy.
There are several questions at play here. Is the observed inequality a result of moral failings - greedy rich or lazy poor - or simply of the way society functions? Are inequalities inexorably tied to issues of minority status? Is it peculiar to the United States, or is it a theme that plays itself out, albeit ... Read More
Rating: - Unequal Representation but Good Essays
"Inequality Matters" is a collection of 22 essays by different authors about the growing gap between the rich of America and the rest of us. The best is Bill Moyers' opening -- and passionate -- shot at the "plunder of public trust" and the "spectacle of corruption" that is the present day situation of the United States.
All of the essays which follow are convincing on the growing gap betweeen rich and poor in areas such as education, retirement, wages, taxes, and health. This is perhaps ... Read More
Rating: - Inequality Matters -- and How!
Midway through 2004, veteran journalist James Lardner, with the help of the Demos think tank in New York, put together the first national conference directly focused on economic inequality - the gap between America's rich and everyone else - since that gap started widening in the late 1970s.
This Inequality Matters conference drew several hundred people to New York University for a weekend of robust discussion and debate. But few outside NYU's conference rooms ever noticed. America's ever more ... Read More
- Inequality is worldwide. Is it human evil or human nature?
- Inequality Matters -- and How!
