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These 10 books, including Stephanie Land's "Maid," will help you understand the inequalities built into America's economy.
Published by Spiegel & Grau, the book illustrates the "divide" by looking at the relationship between growing income inequality and the criminalization of poverty, as poor people are increasingly harassed, arrested and imprisoned for minor crimes in the U.S., sometimes for no actual crime at all, even as crime rates continue to plummet, resulting in a prison population that "is now the biggest ...
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future is a 2012 book by Joseph Stiglitz that deals with income inequality in the United States. He attacks the growing wealth disparity and the effects it has on the economy at large.
Income inequality rose from 1913 to peaks in 1926 (1928 Gini 48.9, 1936 Gini 45.5) and 1941 (Gini 43.1), after which war-time measures of the Roosevelt administration began to equalize the income distribution. [20] Social Security was enacted in 1935.
The average income of the top 20% residing in certain U.S. cities is within a comfortable six-figure range whereas the bottom 20%, for many cities, exists in the poverty threshold. Which cities ...
Take one measure of labor market earnings — the pay (including benefits) of the 80% of workers who are not managers or supervisors at work. For decades before 1980, these workers’ hourly pay ...
Paul Krugman called the book a "magnificent, sweeping meditation on inequality" [29] and "the most important economics book of the year – and maybe of the decade." [ 21 ] He distinguishes the book from other bestsellers on economics as it constitutes "serious, discourse-changing scholarship". [ 30 ]
The book focuses on how automation negatively impacts the poor. [1] In the United States during the 19th century, poor people were often sent to poorhouses . [ 2 ] Eubanks draws a connection from the poorhouses of the 19th century to how we control and contain poor people using technology in the 21st century. [ 3 ]