Plutocracy in America: How Increasing Inequality Destroys the Middle Class and Exploits the Poor

A hard-hitting analysis of how the disparity between wealth and poverty undermines the common good.

The growing gap between the most affluent Americans and the rest of society is changing the country into one defined—more than almost any other developed nation—by exceptional inequality of income, wealth, and opportunity. This book reveals that an infrastructure of inequality, both open and hidden, obstructs the great majority in pursuing happiness, living healthy lives, and exercising basic ...