Fairness & the Economy

Few experts dispute the fact that economic inequality in the United States has increased dramatically in recent decades, especially under the Bush administration. Americans are harder working and more productive than ever, yet the rewards for that productivity flow into the pockets of fewer and fewer people. That is a political as well as an economic problem.

Those at the very top of the nation’s economic ladder have seen their...

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