Dyer, Hadley
Summary: "Economic inequality affects everybody. No matter how rich or poor you are, economic inequality impacts every aspect of your life--the place where you live, the opportunities you experience, the healthcare you get, the education you receive. More Than Money breaks down why the rich seem to be getting richer while the rest of us are struggling to just get by. With vivid, energetic illustrations,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 339.2 DYEDeaton, Angus
Summary: "The world is a better place than it used to be. People are wealthier and healthier, and live longer lives. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many have left gaping inequalities between people and between nations. In The Great Escape, Angus Deaton--one of the foremost experts on economic development and on poverty--tells the remarkable story of how, starting two hundred and fifty years ago,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339.2 DEAChung, 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 CHUSummary: 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 CORLinde, 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 LINLindsey, 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 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
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339.2 SOWFraser, 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 FRASchwartz, 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 SCHReich, 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 REIRobeyns, Ingrid
Summary: "An original, bold, and convincing argument for a cap on wealth by the philosopher who coined the term "limitarianism" that invites us to a radical reimagining of our world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Astra House 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 339.2 ROBShiva, Vandana
Summary: "With a new epilogue about Bill Gates's global agenda and how we can resist the billionaires' war on life Widespread poverty and malnutrition, an alarming refugee crisis, social unrest, and economic polarization have become our lived reality as the top 1% of the world's seven-billion-plus population pushes the planet-and all its people-to the social and ecological brink. In Oneness vs. the 1%,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Publishing 2020
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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 JUDCollins, Chuck
Summary: As inequality grabs headlines, steals the show in presidential debates, and drives deep divides between the haves and have nots in America, class war brews. On one side, the wealthy wield power and advantage, wittingly or not, to keep the system operating in their favor all while retreating into enclaves that separate them further and further from the poor and working class. On the other side,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 303.48 COLSanders, 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 SandersSmith, 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 SMITaibbi, 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 WUStanding, Guy
Summary: Basic income is a revolutionary idea that guarantees regular, unconditional cash transfers from the government to all citizens. It is an acknowledgement that everyone plays a part in generating the wealth currently enjoyed by only a few and would rectify the recent breakdown in income distribution. Political parties across the world are now adopting this innovative policy and the idea generates...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331 STASummary: 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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Adler, Moshe.
Summary: Argues that contemporary economic theories, particularly those concerning efficiency and wages, favor the rich over the poor, and that there are better, more just options.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330 ADLGalbraith, John Kenneth
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.126 GALKnutson, Julie
Summary: "Readers will learn about the tenth UN Sustainable Development Goal and what it takes to commit to reducing inequalities by 2030. Aligned to curriculum standards, this book also highlights key 21st Century Content: Global Awareness, Public Policy, Health and Wellness, Civics Literacy, and Environmental Stewardship. Includes a table of contents, glossary of key words, index, author biography,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Social KnutsonReich, 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