ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses various ways of attacking social inequality, beginning at the political level. American income/wealth inequality is pronounced, with the US citizenry showing a greater disparity between the income possessed by its most affluent fifth and its poorest fifth than comparison groups in nearly two dozen developed nations. It seems indisputable that the United States is a nation where social inequality thrives, possessing a two-party system that has promoted that condition. The United States features disproportionate rewarding of the wealthy: huge tax breaks and chief executive officer's enormous earnings compared to average workers, contrasted with one of the highest rates of child poverty among developed nations— clearly a country where vast social inequality thrives. The United States is a society in which only the affluent, particularly the rich, have steadily improved their economic situation.
