Income Inequality in America by Stacey M Jones

Income Inequality in America by Stacey M Jones

This book provides a one-stop resource for understanding the full dimensions of income inequality in the USA, including chief socioeconomic drivers of inequality and proposals to reduce the widening gap between rich and poor in America. Carefully researched and scrupulously nonpartisan, this resource examines the history and current state of income inequality in the USA, with a particular focus on key issues, events, and political/economic philosophies relevant to the enduring divide between rich and poor in America. One of the most valuable aspects of the book is that it surveys the complex history of income inequality in an easy-to-understand fashion that helps readers identify and assess the ways in which income inequality shapes many aspects of modern American society. The book is even-handed in its treatment of the academic and policy debates over the causes, consequences, and appropriate response to today's growing inequality. In addition, this resource provides insights into the financial underpinnings of debt and wealth and capitalism and how all of those factors perpetuate themselves. It also examines problems and challenges related to child care, education, transportation, housing, and saving for retirement that hamper so many poor people in their efforts to lift their households out of poverty.

Stacey M. Jones is a Professor of Economics with the Albers School of Business and Economics at Seattle University, USA.

Robert S. Rycroft is Professor of Economics at the University of Mary Washington, USA.

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ISBN 13	9781440867439
ISBN 10	1440867437
Title	Income Inequality in America
Author	Stacey M Jones
Series	Contemporary World Issues
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Year published	2023-01-18
Number of pages	424
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