This might be America’s greatest problem, breaking the keystone of America’s foundations and the glue of our social cohesion.
Contents
- About our falling social mobility
- About wealth inequality
- About income inequality
- About corporations building an unequal world
- About the politics of inequality
- Life in unequal post-America
- Will the new industrial revolution boost inequality?
- About solutions
(1)ย About our falling social mobility
- America, the land of limited opportunity. We must open our eyes to the truth.
- Growing inequality powers the rise of New America.
(2)ย About wealth inequality
- A great, brief analysis of the problem with Americaโs society โ a model to follow when looking at other problems.
- Americans love Tolkienโs Middle Earth. Itโs just like home!
(3)ย About income inequality
- A sad picture of America, important for us to understand, 3 November 2008 โ About social mobility
- Inequality in the USA, 7 January 2009
- The latest figures on income inequality in the USA, 9 October 2009
- An opportunity to look in the mirror, to more clearly see America, 10 November 2009
- Graph of the decade, a hidden fracture in the American political regime, 7 March 2010
- Modern America seen in pictures. Graphs, not photos. Facts, not impressions., 13 June 2010
- News You Can Use to understand the New America, 14 March 2012 — Articles about rising inequality
- Jared Bernstein examines the economic impact of raising taxes on high-income households, 30 April 2012
- How clearly do we see the rising inequality in America? How do we feel about it? Much depends on these answers., 27 September 2012
- Ugly truths about income inequality in America, which no politician dares to say, 2 October 2012
- The coming big inequality. Was Marx justย early?, 27 November 2012
- Glimpses of the New America being born now, 18 June 2013
- Back to the future in New America: our new class structure, 27 November 2013
- The state of the American middle class: are we thriving or sinking?, 15 January 2014
- Warning: the income gap between races is widening in America.
(4)ย About corporations building an unequal world
- The new American economy: concentrating business power to suit an unequal society, 27 April 2012
- For Thanksgiving, Walmart shows us the New America, 19 November 2013
- Nike swooshs us into a future of fewer jobs, low pay, 10 March 2014
(5)ย About the politics of inequality
- Americaโs elites reluctantly impose a client-patron system, 5 November 2008
- A pity party for Americaโs rich and powerful, 8 September 2010
- Should we despair, giving up on America?, 5 May 2012
- Tom Perkins tells us about the 1%โs vision of a New America, 18 February 2014
- How the 1% runs America. Runs us. The answer points to 2 futures for us., 8 May 2014
- The 1% won a counter-revolution while we played. We forgot that we are the crew of America, not passengers., 28 April 2014
- See Americaโs income equality grow during 1979-2011, a driver of Campaign 2016.
- Taxes: one of the bright lines distinguishing Trump from Clinton.
(6)ย Life in unequal post-America
- A modern conservative dresses up Mr. Potter to suit our libertarian fashions.
- Another view of New America: inequality, low social mobility, rising heroin use. Fun, but not for all.
- For Thanksgiving, Walmart shows us the New America,
- Consequences of growing inequality in wealth, income, and power.
- Americans love Tolkienโs Middle Earth. Itโs just like home!
- Why Elizabeth Bennet could not marry Mr. Darcy. Nor could your daughter.
- Learning not to trust each other in America, and not to trust America.
- Our future will be Jupiter Ascending, unless we make it Star Trek.
- Complaints about air travel are the cries of a dying middle class.
- When marriage disappears: rising inequality as the threat to the family.
- See Americaโs income inequality grow during 1979-2011, a driver of Campaign 2016.
- An anthropologist looks at Americaโs growing proletariat.
(7)ย Will the new industrial revolution boost inequality?
- The coming big inequality. Was Marx just early?
- Well-meant minimum wage increases will accelerate automation.
- The battle of institutions vs. technology = rising wage inequality.
- Matthew Yglesias tells us not to worry about the new industrial revolution.
(8) About solutions
- Education, the glittering but fake solution.
- Steps to make the tech revolution boost America, not just the 1%.
- Well-meant minimum wage increases will accelerate automation.
- A guaranteed minimum income: faux solution for the new industrial revolution.
- Why a guaranteed minimum income will not defend us from the coming automation wave.
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