Ethics and Inequality

Ethics and Inequality
Rob Reich and Debra Satz

This article is part of Occupy the Future, a forum on lessons to be drawn from the Occupy movement.

Consider some facts: the 400 wealthiest Americans have more money than the bottom 50 percent of all Americans combined. Between 1979 and 2007, the incomes of the top 1 percent of the population grew by 275 percent while the incomes of the middle class rose only 40 percent. And according to newly released measures, a staggering one in three Americans, or 100 million people, suffer in poverty or near poverty.
http://www.bostonreview.net/BR36.6/rob_reich_debra_satz_occupy_movement_future.php

Keith Conning: Debra Satz is my sister-in-law.