| INEQUALITY MATTERS: The Growing Economic Divide in America and its Poisonous Consequences James Lardner (ed.) David A. Smith (ed.) Bill Moyers (Fwd.) New York: The New Press, 2005 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-1-56584-995-2 | ||||
| ISBN-10 1-56584-995-7 | 328pp. | HC/GSI | $25.95 | |
| THE FIGHT OF OUR LIVES (Bill Moyers) | 1 | |
| WHAT'S THE PROBLEM? (James Lardner) | 15 | |
| PART ONE: HOW UNEQUAL ARE WE, ANYWAY? | ||
| WHAT THE NUMBERS TELL US (Heather Boushey and Christian E. Weller) | 27 | |
| EARTH TO WAL-MARS (Barbara Ehrenreich) | 41 | |
| THE RETURN OF "SEPARATE BUT EQUAL" (Richard D. Kahlenberg) | 54 | |
| THE SNOWBALL AND THE TREADMILL (Meizhu Lui) | 65 | |
| SHREDDING THE RETIREMENT CONTRACT (David A. Smith and Heather McGhee) | 77 | |
| THE GROWING COLLEGE GAP (Tamara Draut) | 89 | |
| COLD TRUTHS ABOUT CLASS, RACE, AND HEALTH (David R. Williams and James Lardner) | 102 | |
| OF THE FEW, BY THE FEW, FOR THE FEW (Charles Lewis) | 115 | |
| PART TWO: DYNAMICS OF INEQUALITY | ||
| WHY DO SO MANY JOBS PAY SO BADLY? (Christopher Jencks) | 129 | |
| HOW THE MIDDLE CLASS IS INJURED BY GAINS AT THE TOP (Robert H. Frank) | 138 | |
| THE VANISHING COMMONS (Jonathan Rowe) | 150 | |
| THE GREAT TAX SHIFT (David Cay Johnston) | 165 | |
| AMERICA DISCONNECTED (Theda Skocpol) | 178 | |
| CORPORATIONS UNBOUND (Joel Balkan) | 188 | |
| A SELF-PERPETUATING TREND? (Eric Wanner) | 203 | |
| PART THREE: CHANGING THE CONVERSATION | ||
| WHO IS THE ELITE? (Betsy Leondar-Wright) | 215 | |
| DON'T DRINK THE KOOL-AID (Robert Kuttner) | 228 | |
| THE LEGITIMIZATION OF INEQUALITY (Robert M. Franklin) | 237 | |
| BUILDING A MORAL ECONOMY (William Grieder) | 247 | |
| A PROPHETIC POLITICS (Jim Wallis) | 258 | |
| DEMOCRACY FIRST (Miles S. Rapaport and David A. Smith) | 268 | |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 279 | |
| NOTES | 281 | |
| CONTRIBUTORS | 323 | |
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