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
- This article includes several charts that show wealth inequality in the United States. It also describes the difference between wealth and income. Income is money coming into a family while wealth is a family's assets, such as savings, real estate, etc. https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2015/03/27/nine-charts-about-wealth-inequality-in-america/?gclid=CjwKEAjw55K4BRC53L6x9pyDzl4SJAD_21V1fxPRi7lNrgmbrEI6ZnnO1v5aoc2lqRnTkFVfJ8c2dxoCQFXw_wcB -St. Luke
