May 2003 - VOLUME 24 - NUMBER 5
Wealth and Income Inequality in the USA
Cover: Upper left: Microsoft’s Bill gates, ©WirePix via FPS; upper right: Workers unloading food for the hungry at the Greater Chicago Food Depository, ©PRNewsFoto; bottom: ACORN Members from across the United States rally in Washington, D.C. against the Bush administration's tax cut plan, march 2003, ©Catherine May.
FEATURE
Overview: Inequality and Corporate Power
The Wealth Divide: The Growing Gap
in the United States Between the Rich and the Rest
An Interview with Edward Wolff
The Hierarchy: Income Inequality
in the United States
An Interview with Jared Bernstein
Declining Unionization,
Rising Inequality
An Interview with Kate Bronfenbrenner
Closing the Gap Amidst Ongoing
Discrimination: Women and Economic Disparities
An Interview with Heidi Hartmann
A Taxing Problem: Diminishing Progressivity in the U.S. Tax System An Interview with Robert McIntyre
DEPARTMENTS
Behind the Lines
Editorial
The Front
Bayer’s Record Fraud