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Class Counts
Education, Inequality, and the Shrinking Middle Class
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2007
Summary
Class counts. Class differences and class warfare have existed since the beginning of western civilization, but the gap in income and wealth between the rich (top 10 percent) and the rest has increased steadily in the last twenty-five years. The U.S. is heading for a financial oligarchy much worse than the aristocratic old world that our Founding Fathers feared and tried to avoid. The middle class is struggling and shrinking, the Medicare and Social Security trusts are drying up, and education is no longer the great equalizer. A moral society, one that is fair and just, sets limits on the accumulation of wealth and inherited privilege and also guarantees a safety net for the less fortunate. This book describes the need for a redistribution of wealth in order to make U.S. society more democratic, fair and just, and outlines the ways in which we can begin to make these very necessary changes. This is a timely and powerful book, one that should be read by anyone interested in preserving the social fabric of American life.
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Edition
1/2007
Copyright Year
2007
ISBN-Print
978-0-7425-4741-4
ISBN-Online
978-0-7425-7372-7
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
357
Product Type
Monograph
Table of contents
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Contents No access
What this Book Is About No access
Dedication No access
Introduction: For Readers with Intellectual Pizzazz No access Pages 1 - 8
1 Historical Thoughts of Equality and Inequality No access Pages 9 - 42
2 1776-And Beyond: Elitist versus Enlightened Thought No access Pages 43 - 72
3 Patrician Influence and Social/Educational Thought No access Pages 73 - 116
4 What Is Equality? No access Pages 117 - 154
5 Education, Mobility, and the American Dream No access Pages 155 - 192
6 The Golden Years Are Over No access Pages 193 - 236
7 World Inequality No access Pages 237 - 282
8 Wishful Thinking: Recommendations and Solutions No access Pages 283 - 340
