Runaway Inequality: An Activist's Guide to Economic Justice

by Les Leopold

Book Overview

Revised, Updated Edition Runaway inequality is now America's most critical economic fact of life. In 1970, the ratio of pay between the top 100 CEOs and the average worker was 45 to 1. Today it is a shocking 829 to one During that time a new economic philosophy set in that cut taxes, deregulated finance, and trimmed social spending. Those policies set in motion a process that greatly expanded the power of financial interests to accelerate inequality...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692436308
• ISBN13: 9780692436301
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Labor Institute Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.3"