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Toxic inequality : how America's wealth gap destroys mobility, deepens the racial divide, & threatens our future  Cover Image Book Book

Toxic inequality : how America's wealth gap destroys mobility, deepens the racial divide, & threatens our future / Thomas M. Shapiro.

Shapiro, Thomas M. (Author).

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  • ISBN: 9780465046935 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: ix, 268 p. ; 22 cm.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Basic Books, 2017.

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Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction: Dreams deferred and derailed - 1. Wealth matters - 2. Inequality at home - 3. Inequality at work - 4. The inheritance advantage - 5. The hidden hand of the goverment - 6. Foreword to equity -- Appendix: The leveraging mobility study -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.
Subject: Poverty > United States.
Income distribution > United States.
Equality > United States.
Racism > United States.
United States > Economic conditions > 21st century.
United States > Social conditions > 21st century.

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Thomas M. Shapiro is the Pokross Professor of Law and Social Policy at the Heller School, Brandeis University, where he directs the Institute on Assets and Social Policy. The author of four books, including The Hidden Cost of Being African American and, with Melvin Oliver, Black Wealth/White Wealth, he lives in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.

Thomas M. Shapiro is the Pokross Professor of Law and Social Policy at the Heller School, Brandeis University, where he directs the Institute on Assets and Social Policy. The author of four books, including The Hidden Cost of Being African American and, with Melvin Oliver, Black Wealth/White Wealth, he lives in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.


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