"We have written this book to call attention among policymakers, health care providers, social scientists, public health practitioners, students of these fields, and the general public to the persistent inequitable health and health care experiences of vulnerable populations in the United...

"In These Times magazine has charted a staggering rise in inequality and the fall of the American middle class. Here, in a selection from four decades of articles by investigative reporters and progressive thinkers, is the story of our age. It is a tale of shockingly successful corporate...

"The three faces of risk" -- "Another day older and deeper in debt" -- "Locking down an American workforce" -- "Uncle Sam doesn't want you" -- "Making disaster pay" -- "Two gilded ages" -- "American labor and the great depression" -- "The age of acquiescence" -- "The limousine liberal's family...