A scalding indictment of how the wealthy influence the national economy, politics, and media to disadvantage those less fortunate.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
I. Pulling Apart: The States of Disunited America
Joblessness and Underemployment in Post-Recession America
Poverty, Wage Stagnation and Deprivation Amid Recovery
Income and Wealth Inequality: Long-Term Trends and Current Realities
Deflection on the Right: But What About Mobility?
Deflection on the Right: The False Promise of Growth
Deflection on the Right: Blaming Changing Family Structure
Deflection on the Right (and Left): Is Education the Key to the Inequality Problem?
Why the Current Trend Lines? What s Behind Growing Inequality in America?
Some Final Words About Race and the Economic Crisis
II. Resurrecting Scrooge: Rhetoric and Policy of the Culture of Cruelty
Demonizing the Poor: Understanding Past as Prologue
The Reformation: From Social Gospel to the New Deal and Beyond
Bashing the War on Poverty: The Presumption of Failure, The Reality of Success
Victim-Blaming, Poverty Shaming and Culture Defaming in Modern America
The Rhetoric of Hate: Dehumanizing and Humiliating the Impoverished
Trivializing Hardship: Conservatives as Poverty Deniers
Welfare Dependence and the Culture of Poverty: Americäs Zombie Lie
The Real Reasons for Unemployment, Poverty and Welfare
Loving the 1 Percent: The Valorization of the Rich and Powerful
Makers v. Takers: Taxes, Public Subsidies and the Real Face of Entitlement
No, You Didn t Build That: Confronting the Myth of Elite Talent
A Culture of Parasitic Affluence: Examining the Inverted Values of the Rich
With Justice for None: The Implications of a Culture of Cruelty
III. Fostering a Culture of Compassion
How Did We Get Here? The Importance of Seeing the Roadblocks Clearly
Something Old : The Myth of Meritocracy
Something New: The Centrality of Racism and White Resentment
Beyond Facts: The Importance of Storytelling
Some Things are Non-negotiable: A Vision of Justice
Endnotes
Index
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