CONTENTS
Introduction
David Cay Johnston
Insights on Inequality
OVERVIEW
Inequality and Democracy
President Barack Obama
The Vanishing Middle Class
Elizabeth Warren
Necessaries
Adam Smith
INCOME INEQUALITY
How Gains at the Top Injure the Middle Class
Robert H. Frank
Inequality Is Holding Back the Recovery
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Wage Theft
Kim Bobo
Home Depot’s CEO-Size Tip
Barbara Ehrenreich
Why Do So Many Jobs Pay So Badly?
Christopher Jencks
In the Heart of Our Economy and Our Lives
Beth Shulman
Household Wealth Inequality
Edward N. Wolff
Inequality Across Generations
Jared Bernstein
“I Didn’t Do It Alone”
Chuck Collins and Felice Yeskel
Arthur A. Robertson and the 1929 Crash
Studs Terkel
Graduates v. Oligarchs
Paul Krugman
EDUCATION
No Rich Child Left Behind
sean f. reardon
Achievement Gap
Editorial Projects of the Education Research Center
Back to School
Mike Rose
Educational Quality and Equality
Linda Darling-Hammond
HEALTH CARE INEQUALITY
Health and Income Inequalities Are Linked
Richard Wilkinson
Unequal Quality of Care
Mary E. O’Brien
Reducing Health Care Disparities
Olveen Carrasquillo and Jaime Torres
Universal Health Care
Leo W. Gerard
U.S. Health Care Costs the Most—by Far
David Cay Johnston
Inequality Kills
Stephen Bezruchka
DEBT AND POVERTY
Jailed for Being in Debt
Chris Serres and Glenn Howatt
America’s Poverty “Tax”
Gary Rivlin
Hunger in America
Donald S. Shepard, Elizabeth Setren, and Donna Cooper
Georgia’s Hunger Games
Neil deMause
Living Down to Expectations
Stephen Pimpare
POLICY
How Economics Is Biased Toward the Rich
Moshe Adler
Don’t Drink the Kool-Aid
Robert Kuttner
Social Security Reduces Inequality—Efficiently, Effectively, and Fairly
Nancy Altman and Eric Kingson
Arguments For and Against Income Inequality
Thomas L. Hungerford
Inequality of Hazard
Frank Ackerman and Lisa Heinzerling
A Different Kind of Epidemic
Ernest Drucker
Prison’s Dilemma
Glenn C. Loury
FAMILY
Men and Their Underpaid Women
David Cay Johnston
Race, Gender, Family Structure, and Poverty
Peter Edelman
Employed Parents Who Can’t Make a Living
Lisa Dodson
Contributors
Additional Reading
Permissions