Class Counts: Education, Inequality, and the Shrinking Middle Class

by Allan C. Ornstein

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742547426
• ISBN13: 9780742547421
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 8.4"