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Title:
Income inequality / Noël Merino, book editor.
Author:
Merino, Noël, editor.
Publication Information:
Farmington Hills, Mich. : Greenhaven Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, [2016]
Call Number:
HC110.I5 I477 2016
ISBN:
9780737775242

9780737775259
Series:
Opposing viewpoints series

Opposing viewpoints series (Unnumbered)
Physical Description:
234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Is income inequality in the United States a problem? Income inequality is higher in the United States than elsewhere / Growing inequality is a serious social problem / Income inequality is not a problem / Inequality is a problem for middle-class and low-income workers / Income inequality is not a problem for the poor and middle class / The life enhancing, unrelenting brilliance of income inequality / Why inequality is bad for you--and everyone else / How do gender, race, and ethnicity affect income? Gender, race, and ethnicity negatively affect earnings / The gender wage gap is not as extreme for young women / The gender wage gap is caused by a variety of factors / The gender wage gap is due to women's choices / The gender wage gap is ugly. So is the right-wing effort to deny it / Black-white income differences : what's happened? / Racial disparities in wealth are even worse than income inequality / What causes income inequality? High executive compensation has increased income inequality / Stop obsessing over exorbitant CEO pay / Income inequality is caused by stagnating middle-class incomes / Income inequality is caused by government intervention / As two-parent families decline, income inequality grows / What should be done about income inequality? How to shrink inequality / The misguided focus on income inequality / Only political inequality, not market inequality, should be eliminated / Quality education would improve income inequality / Knowledge isn't power / Higher education will alleviate inequality only if it is affordable / Cultural inequality is the problem that needs to be addressed
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Income inequality (Greenhaven Press)
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