The biggest impediment to U.S recovery is economic inequality. This is the central argument in my article "The U.S. No Longer Makes the Grade: Economic Inequality Put an End to the 'American Century"" in the Phi Kappa Phi Forum, vol. 92, No. 3. This article is available at Butler's "Digital Commons" site by clicking here. The footnotes for the article are temporarily available at the Forum's website at this link.
Correction: There is an important typo on page 7, column 1, 2nd paragraph. The sentence there should read as follows:
"A recent global study by the International Monetary Fund, for example, found that countries with strong economic growth tended to have greater income equality than those with weak growth...."
Comments and (civil!) discourse on this piece are welcome.
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