The Rich and the Rest. Sam Pizzigati.
by Pizzigati, Sam; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 38Business. Publisher: Futurist, 2005ISSN: 1522-3191;.Subject(s): Executives -- Salaries, etc | Income distribution | Income tax | Labor economics | Minimum wage | Wages | WealthDDC classification: 050 Summary: "A century ago, battles against what angry Americans called plutocracy--rule by the rich--raged all across the United States. Those battles would eventually leave the world's first mass middle class by the 1950s. Today, that plutocracy is back and that middle class is hurting. What about tomorrow? In the twenty-first century, will Americans continue to tolerate enormous disparities in the property people own and the wealth individuals have accumulated?" (FUTURIST) The author, a labor economist, "sees peril as a tiny minority of the population accumulates more and more wealth."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: The Rich and the Rest, July/Aug. 2005; pp. 38-43.
"A century ago, battles against what angry Americans called plutocracy--rule by the rich--raged all across the United States. Those battles would eventually leave the world's first mass middle class by the 1950s. Today, that plutocracy is back and that middle class is hurting. What about tomorrow? In the twenty-first century, will Americans continue to tolerate enormous disparities in the property people own and the wealth individuals have accumulated?" (FUTURIST) The author, a labor economist, "sees peril as a tiny minority of the population accumulates more and more wealth."
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