“The Vanishing Middle Class” by Elizabeth Warren is adapted with permission from Ending Poverty in America: How to Restore the American Dream, ed. Senator John Edwards, Marion Crane, and Arne L. Kalleberg (New York: The New Press, 2007).
“How Gains at the Top Injure the Middle Class” by Robert H. Frank, “Why Do So Many Jobs Pay So Badly?” by Christopher Jencks, and “Don’t Drink the Kool-Aid” by Robert Kuttner are adapted with permission from Inequality Matters: The Growing Economic Divide in America and Its Poisonous Consequences, ed. James Lardner and David A. Smith (New York: The New Press, 2005).
“Inequality Is Holding Back Recovery” by Joseph E. Stiglitz is adapted with permission from an article published in the New York Times, January 19, 2013.
“Wage Theft” by Kim Bobo is adapted with permission from Wage Theft: Why Millions of Working Americans Are Not Getting Paid—And What We Can Do About It (New York: The New Press, 2009).
“Home Depot’s CEO-Size Tip” by Barbara Ehrenreich is excerpted from The Land Is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation. Copyright 2008 by Barbara Ehrenreich. Permission granted by Henry Holt and Company, LLC. All rights reserved.
“In the Heart of Our Economy and Our Lives” by Beth Shulman is adapted with permission from The Betrayal of Work: How Low-Wage Jobs Fail 30 Million Americans (New York: The New Press, 2003).
“Household Wealth Inequality” by Edward N. Wolff is adapted with permission from Top Heavy: The Increasing Inequality of Wealth in America and What Can Be Done About It (New York: The New Press, 2002).
“Inequality Across Generations” by Jared Bernstein and “Educational Quality and Equality” by Linda Darling-Hammond are adapted with permission from All Things Being Equal: Instigating Opportunity in an Inequitable Time, ed. Brian D. Smedley and Alan Jenkins (New York: The New Press, 2007).
“ ‘I Didn’t Do It Alone’ ” by Chuck Collins and Felice Yeskel is adapted with permission from Economic Apartheid: A Primer on Economic Inequality and Insecurity (New York: The New Press, 2000).
“Arthur A. Robertson and the 1929 Crash” by Studs Terkel is adapted from Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression (New York: The New Press, 2000).
“Graduates v. Oligarchs” by Paul Krugman is adapted with permission from an article published in the New York Times, November 1, 2011.
“No Rich Child Left Behind” by Sean F. Reardon is adapted with permission from an article published in the New York Times, April 27, 2013.
“Achievement Gap” by the Editorial Projects of the Education Research Center was adapted with permission from an article published in Education Week, July 7, 2011.
“Back to School” by Mike Rose is adapted with permission from Back to School: Why Everyone Deserves a Second Chance at Education (New York: The New Press, 2012).
“Health and Income Inequalities Are Linked” by Richard Wilkinson is adapted with permission from The Impact of Inequality: How to Make Sick Societies Healthier (New York: The New Press, 2005).
“Unequal Quality of Care” by Mary E. O’Brien, “Reducing Health Care Disparites” by Olveen Carrasquillo and Jaime Torres, and “Universal Health Care” by Leo W. Gerard are adapted with permission from 10 Excellent Reasons for National Health Care, ed. Mary O’Brien and Martha Livingston (New York: The New Press, 2008).
“Jailed for Being in Debt” by Chris Serres and Glenn Howatt is adapted with permission from an article published in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, June 6, 2010.
“America’s Poverty ‘Tax’ ” by Gary Rivlin is adapted with permission from Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc.—How the Working Poor Became Big Business (New York: HarperBusiness, 2010).
“Hunger in America” by Donald S. Shepard, Elizabeth Setren, and Donna Cooper is adapted with permission from Hunger in America: Suffering We All Pay For (2011) by the Center for American Progress, published on the center’s website.
“Georgia’s Hunger Games” by Neil deMause is adapted with permission from an article published on Slate, December 26, 2012.
“Living Down to Expectations” by Stephen Pimpare is adapted with permission from A People’s History of Poverty in America (New York: The New Press, 2008).
“How Economics Is Biased Toward the Rich” by Moshe Adler is adapted with permission from Economics for the Rest of Us: Debunking the Science That Makes Life Dismal (New York: The New Press, 2010).
“Inequality of Hazard” by Frank Ackerman and Lisa Heinzerling is adapted with permission from Priceless: On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing (New York: The New Press, 2003).
“A Different Kind of Epidemic” by Ernest Drucker is adapted with permission from A Plague of Prisons: The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America (New York: The New Press 2011).
“Prison’s Dilemma” by Glenn C. Loury is adapted with permission from an article published in the Washington Monthly, January–February 2013.
“Race, Gender, Family Structure, and Poverty” by Peter Edelman is adapted with permission from So Rich, So Poor: Why It’s So Hard to End Poverty in America (New York: The New Press, 2012).
“Employed Parents Who Can’t Make a Living” by Lisa Dodson is adapted with permission from The Moral Underground: How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy (New York: The New Press, 2010).