Essays: Increasing inequality imperils nation
… ”While the United States remains a spectacularly rich country by any standard, we are drifting toward a Third-World-like distribution of our riches. For tens of millions of Americans, the alternative to unemployment has become a dead-end job that doesn’t necessarily pay enough to cover basic living expenses,” writes co-editor James Lardner, a senior fellow at Demos, a New York-based think tank.
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