America's Inequality Trap

by Nathan J. Kelly

Book Overview

The gap between the rich and the poor has grown dramatically in the United States and is now at its widest since at least the early 1900s. While by most measures the economy has been improving, soaring cost of living and stagnant wages have done little to assuage economic anxieties. Conditions like these seem designed to produce a generation-defining intervention to balance the economic scales and enhance opportunities for those at the middle and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022666550X
• ISBN13: 9780226665504
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"