What Will Reversing Inequality Really Take?
from Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality:
What Will Reversing Inequality Really Take?
February 2, 2014
In the fierce debate over our top-heavy distribution of income and wealth, egalitarians have vanquished both inequalitys deniers and defenders. Now the debate is shifting to the most pivotal question of all.
By Sam Pizzigati
Americas ongoing debate over economic inequality may be turning a new page.
In the debates first chapter, starting the 1980s, scholars, pundits, and policy makers did battle over whether the United States was becoming more unequal.
We still have some denialists floating around in right-wing think tank circles. But this debate has essentially ended. No serious analyst any longer argues that the gap between Americas rich and everyone else hasnt jumped substantially.
The debates second chapter over the impact of 21st-century Americas grand concentrations of private wealth is still playing out. .................(more)
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