Rich and poor in America : a reference handbook / Geoffrey Gilbert.
This work provides a thorough overview and analysis of the increasing gap between the Americans at the top and bottom of the economic scale.
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[2008]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Background and history
- A widening gap
- Measuring income inequality
- Wealth inequality
- Long-term trends
- Rowboats, yachts, and rising tides
- Race, ethnicity, and economic inequality
- Income inequality and health
- Income inequality and education
- A shrinking middle class?
- From rich to poor and poor to rich : mobility
- Rich and poor : the political dimension
- 2. Problems, controversies, and solutions
- The wage structure and human capital
- Labor skills, labor demand, and technological change
- International competition
- Immigration
- Unions and the wage distribution
- The Minimum Wage and inequality
- Winner take all?
- Family structure and income distribution
- Political perspectives on income inequality
- Education as an income equalizer
- The effectiveness of early interventions
- U.S. schools and inequality
- Ways to improve low-SES student performance
- College : ticket to the middle class
- Working on the labor market
- The living wage as a boost to low wages
- Stronger unions as a means to lift low wages
- Earned Income Tax Credit
- Limits on CEO pay
- Immigrant labor supplies
- Taxes and transfer payments
- Wealth and estate taxes
- Asset-building policies
- Summary. 3. Worldwide perspective
- A world of contrasts
- National rates of income inequality
- Income inequality in Latin America and Africa
- Poverty in the rich countries
- National trends in income inequality
- Income by country : divergence or convergence?
- A new concept of global inequality
- Less inequality, less poverty?
- Economic mobility : the United States in global perspective
- Top U.S. incomes in worldwide perspective
- CEO pay and income inequality
- Wealth taxes : a (so far) non-American response to wealth inequality
- A caution on wealth taxes
- 4. Chronology
- 5. Biographical sketches
- Horatio Alger Jr.
- Anne L. Alstott
- Warren E. Buffett
- John Bates Clark
- Chuck Collins
- Marian Wright Edelman
- John Edwards
- Barbara Ehrenreich
- Victor R. Fuchs
- William H. Gates III
- Corrado Gini
- Hetty Green
- Delores Huerta
- Jonathan Kozol
- Simon Kuznets
- Bhashkar Mazumder
- Sara S. McLanahan
- Mollie Orshansky
- John D. Rockefeller
- Paul G. Schervish
- Thomas M. Shapiro
- Michael Sherraden
- Ronald J. Sider
- Timothy M. Smeeding
- Samuel Walton
- Richard Wilkinson
- Edward N. Wolff. 6. Data and documents
- Inequality and the American public : the Maxwell School Survey
- Perceptions of inequality trends
- Concerns about inequality
- California Kids Investment and Development Savings (KIDS) accounts
- Ben Bernanke on U.S. income inequality
- Pay without performance : the great CEO guarantee
- Are CEOs overpaid?
- The Estate Tax 'recycles' opportunity
- Being profitable is giving back
- Andrew Carnegie on what to do with a fortune
- Giving back, big time : the Carnegie-Buffett connection
- Being poor
- 7. Directory of organizations
- 8. Selected print and nonprint resources
- Print resources
- Articles
- Books
- Nonprint resources
- Web sites
- Video
- Contact information for video distributors and vendors
- Glossary.