Copyright © 2017 by Joel Berg

Excerpts from Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates © 2015 by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Used by permission of Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.

Excerpts from The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society Endangers Our Future by Joseph E. Stiglitz, copyright © 2012 by Joseph E. Stiglitz. Used by permission of W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. All rights reserved.

Excerpts of this book previously appeared in City Limits Magazine and in a Progressive Policy Institute report. Permission for re-use granted.

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