Lindsey, Brink
Summary: Economists have long taught that there is a tradeoff between efficiency and equity-that is, between making a bigger pie and dividing it more fairly. This idea is what makes our current predicament so puzzling: today we are faced with both a stagnating economy and sky-high inequality. Both problems have many causes, but Brink Lindsey and Steven M. Teles argue that one cause-state action to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339.2 LINReich, Robert B.
Summary: Reich outlines how the American economic system is failing, with increasing income inequality and a shrinking middle class, and reveals how a market designed for broad prosperity can reverse the trend toward diminished opportunity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 330.9 REISchwartz, Nelson
Summary: "In nearly every realm of daily life--from health care to education, highways to home security--there is an invisible velvet rope rising, separating Americans into two radically different experiences of life. On one side of the velvet rope is a friction-free existence where, for a price, needs are anticipated and catered to. Red tape is cut, lines are jumped, appointments are secured, and doors...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339.2 SCHChung, Nicole
Summary: "From the bestselling author of ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW comes a searing memoir of class, inequality, and grief-a daughter's search to understand the lives her adoptive parents led, the life she forged as an adult, and the lives she's lost. In this country, unless you attain extraordinary wealth, you will likely be unable to help your loved ones in all the ways you'd hoped. You will learn to live...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHUNG, NICOLE CHUSanders, Bernard
Summary: "A progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo that has enriched millionaires and billionaires at the expense of the working class, and a blueprint for what transformational change would actually look like. It's OK to be angry about capitalism. Reflecting on our turbulent times, Senator Bernie Sanders takes on the billionaire class and speaks blunt truths about our country's failure...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.12 SANPetrou, Karen
Summary: "Economic inequality in America is on fire. The heat was rising in 2011 when Occupy Wall Street railed against the 1%, and then in 2016, when populist presidential candidates of both parties attracted fervent support. Now we see it in the platforms of 2020 candidates, whose policy proposals for tackling economic inequality reflect the critical concerns they've been hearing from angry,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.5 PETJudson, Bruce.
Summary: The severe economic downturn has been blamed on many things: deregulation, derivatives, greedy borrowers, negligent lenders. But could there be a deeper problem that is so severe, so long-lasting, and so dangerous that it makes these problems look minor? Could we be facing an existential challenge to the promise of America? Inequality has reached historical highs. Throughout human history, this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339.2 JUDEdin, Kathryn J.
Summary: "A revelatory account of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don't think it exists Jessica Compton's family of four would have no cash income unless she donated plasma twice a week at her local donation center in Tennessee. Modonna Harrisand her teenage daughter Brianna in Chicago often have no food but spoiled milk on weekends. After two decades of brilliant research on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339.3 EDICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339.3 EDISmith, Hedrick.
Summary: Recounts how the American dream has been dismantled over the past forty years by legislative, electoral, and corporate decisions that have compromised the middle class and minimized individual economic and political power.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.91 SMISanders, Bernard.
Summary: Presents the Vermont Senator's speech from December 10, 2010, in which he spoke for eight and a half hours to call to action the middle class in an effort to save themselves by becoming informed, organized, and prepared to take on the special interests in Washington.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Words Speech SandersTaibbi, Matt.
Summary: "Matt Taibbi's genius is in untangling complex stories and making us care about them by providing striking moral clarity and a genuine sense of outrage. He has become among the most read journalists in America, leading the dialogue with epic Rolling Stone pieces that offer an "almost startling reminder of the power of good writing" (Washington Post). In this new work, he once again takes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.372 TAIWu, Tim
Summary: "We live in an age of extreme corporate concentration, in which global industries are controlled by just a few giant firms -- big banks, big pharma, and big tech, just to name a few. But concern over what Louis Brandeis called the "curse of bigness" can no longer remain the province of specialist lawyers and economists, for it has spilled over into policy and politics, even threatening...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Global Reports 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.8 WUSummary: Examines economics professor and Clinton Administration cabinet member Robert Reich's crusade to expose the problem of income inequality in the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC INE1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF INE
Summary: Democracies should protect their citizens, especially the most vulnerable among them, but the United States is increasingly failing to do so. This investigative documentary shows how corporations and billionaires have taken control of the American political process and in doing so have brought economic hardship and ruin. It combines insights from political thinkers and journalists with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CORFord, Clyde W.
Summary: "Of Blood and Sweat: Black Lives and the Genesis of White Power and Wealth tells the story of how Black lives and labor created White power and wealth in agriculture, politics, jurisprudence, law enforcement, culture, medicine, financial services, and other fields. Through the lives of individual Black men and women a deeper understanding unravels of the role Blacks played, directly and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 FORMorgenson, Gretchen
Summary: "Much has been written about the widening gulf between rich and poor in the United States, the pernicious effects our deepening income inequality has on the nation's well-being, and how our style of capitalism has failed to provide a living wage for so many Americans. But nothing has fully detailed the crucial role a small cohort of elite financiers has played in this dispiriting outcome over...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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Summary: Presents an analysis of the recent increase of poverty in the United States, even among the middle class, describing twelve steps that can be undertaken to give the poor more equitable access to housing, education, and health care.
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Publisher / Publication Date: SmileyBooks 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339.22 SMIFraser, Steve
Summary: "A groundbreaking investigation of how and why, from the 18th century to the present day, American resistance to our ruling elites has vanished. From the American Revolution through the Civil Rights movement, Americans have long mobilized against political, social, and economic privilege. Hierarchies based on inheritance, wealth, and political preferment were treated as obnoxious and a threat...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.9 FRAReich, Robert B.
Summary: Outlines how the American economic system is failing, with increasing income inequality and a shrinking middle class, and reveals how a market designed for broad prosperity can reverse the trend toward diminished opportunity. --Publisher
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 330.973 REIFreeman, Amanda
Summary: "Many Americans take comfort and convenience for granted. We eat at nice restaurants, order groceries online, and hire nannies to care for kids. Getting Me Cheap is a portrait of the lives of the low-wage workers-primarily women-who make this lifestyle possible. Sociologists Lisa Dodson and Amanda Freeman follow women in the food, health care, home care, and other low-wage industries as they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.83 FRELeonard, Christopher
Summary: "The New York Times bestselling business journalist Christopher Leonard infiltrates one of America's most mysterious institutions-the Federal Reserve-to show how its policies over the past ten years have accelerated income inequality and put our country'seconomic stability at risk"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.1 LEOReeves, Richard V
Summary: "America is becoming a class-based society. It is now conventional wisdom to focus on the wealth of the top 1 percent-especially the top 0.01 percent-and how the ultra-rich are concentrating income and prosperity while incomes for most other Americans are stagnant. But the most important, consequential, and widening gap in American society is between the upper middle class and everyone else. ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brookings Institution Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.5 REELinde, Barbara M.
Summary: "Have you ever wondered why presidential candidates need money for their campaigns? How do they get the funds they need to succeed in politics? This book focuses on how and where presidential candidates obtain the money to help them run for the country's highest office. Readers will learn about the history of campaign fund-raising and discover how candidates in different time periods approached...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 324.7 LINSowell, Thomas
Summary: "Economic and other outcomes differ vastly among individuals, groups, and nations. Many explanations have been offered for the differences. Some believe that those with less fortunate outcomes are victims of genetics. Others believe that those who are less fortunate are victims of the more fortunate. Discrimination and Disparities gathers a wide array of empirical evidence to challenge the idea...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2019