Class Divides Americans Today (Omnivore)

From Bookforum's Omnivore blog, this collection of links looks at economic disparity and the class divide in America. There is definitely some interesting reads on a topic that may be the most important issue facing our society.

One of the more interesting articles is from Guernica, Class in America: A Symposium, featuring seven writers, editors, and thinkers discussing how class divides Americans today and what we can do to fix America's inequality problem. The seven voices are

• DW Gibson, author of Not Working: People Talk About Losing a Job and Finding Their Way in Today’s Changing Economy.
• Dean Baker, Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research
• Andrew Ross, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU
• Mychal Denzel Smith, Knobler Fellow at The Nation Institute
• Tamara Draut, Vice President of Policy and Research, Demos
• Nicole Aschoff, Editor, Jacobin Magazine
• Benjamin Kunkel, Senior Editor, N+1

Enjoy!

Class divides Americans today

Jul 7 2014
3:00PM

• Zachary D. Liscow (Yale): Reducing Inequality on the Cheap: When Legal Rule Design Should Incorporate Equity as Well as Efficiency. 
• Roy Van der Weide and Branko Milanovic (World Bank): Inequality is Bad for Growth of the Poor (But Not for that of the Rich). 
• Harry Stein on how the government subsidizes wealth inequality. 
• Hamilton Nolan on the paucity of the pro-inequality argument. 
• Paul Krugman on inequality denial: It persists because there are groups with a strong interest in creating a fog of doubt. 
• Joseph Stiglitz on the myth of America’s golden age: “What growing up in Gary, Indiana, taught me about inequality”; and on why inequality is not inevitable. 
• Lina Khan and Sandeep Vaheesan on how America became uncompetitive and unequal.
• David Leonhardt on how inequality has been going on forever, but that doesn’t mean it’s inevitable. 
• Could politics trump economics as reason for growing income inequality? 
• Eduardo Porter on the politics of income inequality. 
• Growing apart: Colin Gordon on a political history of American inequality. 
• Robert Reich on how to shrink inequality. 
• Addressing wealth disparities: Goldburn P. Maynard Jr. on reimagining wealth taxation as a tool for building wealth. 
• Life, liberty and the pursuit of property: Sean McElwee on how the solution to America’s growing inequality may lie in democratizing company ownership. 
• “Bloodiest thing the world has seen”: Elias Isquith interviews David Cay Johnston, author of Divided: The Perils of Our Growing Inequality. 
• Class in America: Seven writers, editors, and thinkers discuss how class divides Americans today and what we can do to fix America's inequality problem — a symposium.