Copyright © 2017 by Thomas M. Shapiro.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Shapiro, Thomas M., author.
Title: Toxic inequality : the true costs of poverty and racial injustice for America’s families / Thomas M. Shapiro.
Description: New York : Basic Books, [2017] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016043570 (print) | LCCN 2016058087 (e-book) | ISBN 9780465046935 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780465094875 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Poverty—United States. | Income distribution—United States. | Equality—United States. | Racism—United States. | United States—Economic conditions—21st century. | United States—Social conditions—21st century.
Classification: LCC HC110.P6 S43 2017 (print) | LCC HC110.P6 (ebook) | DDC 339.4/60973—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016043570
E3-20170210-JV-NF