Is Inequality in America Irreversible?

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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- Dedication -- Introduction -- A Front Row Seat to Inequality -- Current Inequality Trends -- Is Inequality in American Irreversible? -- Notes -- 1 Why Does Inequality Matter? (And Why Is It Happening?) -- Why Inequality Matters -- Inequality Makes You Sick and Tears Communities Apart -- Inequality and Social Mobility, Opportunity, Poverty, and Democracy -- What is Causing Inequality to Grow? -- Notes -- 2 What Are the Barriers to Change? -- Tale of Two Populisms -- Changing the Stories that Hold Inequality in Place -- Disrupting Myths of Deservedness -- Notes -- 3 Changing the Rules: Raising Floors, Opening Doors -- Raising the Floor -- Additional Rule Changes that Raise the Floor -- Level the Playing Field: Opening Doors -- Democracy Protections, Money and Politics -- Notes -- 4 Reducing the Concentration of Wealth -- Progressive Taxation -- Reforming CEO Pay and Corporate Incentive Systems -- Anti-Trust Policy to Reduce Corporate Concentration -- The Hidden Wealth Problem -- Fixing the Hidden Wealth Problem -- Notes -- 5 Transformative Campaigns to Change the Future -- Four Transformative Campaigns -- Everyone Gets a Home Before Government Subsidizes Second Homes -- Debt Free Higher Education for All, Funded by Wealth Taxation -- Save the Planet and Create Good Jobs -- Universal Basic Income Funded by Commonwealth Funds -- Notes -- Conclusion: Toward Equality -- Notes -- End User License Agreement  Read more... ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1: Why Does Inequality Matter? (And Why is It Happening?)Chapter 2: What are the barriers to change?Chapter 3: Changing the Rules: Raising Floors, Opening DoorsChapter 4: Reducing the Concentration of WealthChapter 5: Campaigns to Change the FutureConclusionNotes