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"Runaway inequality is now America's most critical economic fact of life. In 1970, the ratio of pay between the top 100 CEOs and the average worker was 45 to 1. Today it is a shocking 829 to one! During that time a new economic philosophy set in that cut taxes, deregulated finance, and trimmed social spending. Those policies set in motion a process that greatly expanded the power of financial interests to accelerate inequality. But how exactly does that happen? Using easy-to-understand charts and graphs, Runaway Inequality explains the process by which corporation after corporation falls…
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2 editions- Other · English · 2018Labor Institute Press · 320 pages · 9780999095423
- Other · English · 2015Labor Institute Press · 314 pages · 9780692436301
Economic policyEqualitySocial policyWealthIncome distributionIncome distribution, united statesUnited states, economic policy, 2009-United states, social policy