US Income and Wealth Inequality

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Has US income and/or wealth inequality become a source of injustice? What theories of justice help us understand claims and counter-claims in this controversy?

• Here's a review of a book by Joseph Stiglitz, "The Price of Inequality," [1]
• Nick Hanauer TED talk on Inequality. [2]
• Short Harvard Business Review article on inequality and economic growth File:HBR how much inequality is necessary for growth.pdf
• This is an interesting website that has many statistics on poverty in the US. The site could act as a solid source of information for statistics in order to create the case of the poverty in the United States. [3] - Sophie Oswald