Is Social Security really going bust, and what does that mean to me? If I hire an immigrant, am I hurting a native-born worker? Why does the stock market go up when employment declines? Should I give that homeless guy a buck? What's a "living wage"? How much can presidents really affect economic...

An unbiased look at how the economic practices of corporations, leaders, and government are severely damaging the American way of life Most of us have lived our lives by the rules—going to school, investing in real estate, and building careers—but the so-called Great Recession has changed...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Class, Race, and the Shaping of the Urban Landscape -- 2 The Perils of Pollution in the Steel City, 1945-1950 -- 3 Opposition to Blind Progress: Middle-Class Environmentalism -- 4 Tired of Working in Pollution and Having It Follow Us Home:...

Research on Economic Inequality's 28th volume provides original research on how inequality is affected by redistribution, growth, mobility and educational opportunities. Additional papers discuss poverty, welfare and wage discrimination.

Intro -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms -- 1. Social Forces and History: Explaining Divergent Poverty and Distributional Outcomes -- 2. South Korea: The Historical Origins of Equitable Growth -- 3. Chile: The Historical Origins of Inequality -- 4. Mexico: The...

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- Abstract -- 1.1 The Diffusion of Mobile Phones to the Poor -- 1.2 The Impact of Mobile Phones -- Reference -- 2 The Diffusion of Mobile Phones in the Historical Context of Innovations from Developed Countries -- Abstract -- 2.1 The Rogers...