Journalist
David Cay Johnston has been writing about economic inequality for some time,
with a focus on the ways the very wealthy protect and advance their privilege.
In 2001 he won the Pulitzer Prize for his work on the ways that advantage plays
out in the U.S. tax code. He is the editor of a new book, Divided: The
Perils of Our Growing Inequality that brings together close to 40
previously published articles and essays that cover a wide range of topics, all
dealing in some way with economic injustice, and all in some way addressing the
basic question Johnston poses at the end of the introduction: who benefits
under the current system and who does not?
Divided
is a wonderful sourcebook, a readable introduction to the topic of inequality
but also a kind of textual map for the more informed, providing in one book a
sense of the many domains of our lives affected by growing inequality.
I
list below the authors and titles of some of the chapters to give a sense of
the scope and sweep of the book. Full disclosure: Divided is published
by my publisher, the New Press, and a section from Back to School is
reprinted in it.
Partial
Table of Contents
Inequality and Democracy
President Barack Obama
The Vanishing Middle Class
Elizabeth Warren
How Gains at the Top Injure the
Middle Class
Robert H. Frank
Inequality Is Holding Back the
Recovery
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Home Depot’s CEO-Size Tip
Barbara Ehrenreich
Why Do So Many Jobs Pay So Badly?
Christopher Jencks
Household Wealth Inequality
Edward N. Wolff
Inequality Across Generations
Jared Bernstein
No Rich Child Left Behind
Sean F. Reardon
Educational Quality and Equality
Linda Darling-Hammond
Health and Income Inequalities Are
Linked
Richard Wilkinson
Reducing Health Care Disparities
Olveen Carrasquillo and Jaime Torres
Hunger in America
Donald S. Shepard, Elizabeth Setren, and
Donna Cooper
How Economics Is Biased Toward the
Rich
Moshe Adler
Social Security Reduces
Inequality—Efficiently, Effectively, and Fairly
Nancy Altman and Eric Kingson
Prison’s Dilemma
Glenn C. Loury
Race, Gender, Family Structure, and
Poverty
Peter Edelman
Employed Parents Who Can’t Make a
Living
Lisa Dodson
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