Is America Having the Wrong Conversation About Income Inequality?

Lucas Jackson / Reuters By now, no one is debating the fact that economic inequality has grown substantially in the past few decades . It seems that almost every day there's a new report showing that incomes and wealth continue to grow for the richest while everyone else struggles to make do. But when it comes to solutions, the conversation stalls. That may be because people are focusing on the wrong parts of of inequality, says Kevin Leicht, the head of the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign's sociology department. In a paper recently published in The Sociological Quarterly , Leicht......(read more)

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