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Readings

• Matthew Stewart, “The 9.9 Percent is the New American Aristocracy," The Atlantic, June 2018

• Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, “Wealth Inequality in the United States since 1913: Evidence from Capitalized Income Tax Data,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2016

• Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, Chuck Collins, and Omar Ocampo, “White Supremacy is the Pre-existing Condition: Eight Solutions to Ensure Economic Recovery Reduces the Racial Wealth Divide,” Institute for Policy Studies, 2019

Item descriptioDiscussion Questions

1. Is some inequality both inevitable and necessary?

2. At what point, if ever, does inequality become a problem?

3. How do income and wealth inequalities overlap with race and gender?

4. Why did these inequalities begin to widen so dramatically starting in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and why have they continued widening since then?

5. Finally, where do our ideas about what constitutes a fair economic and political system come from?

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