{"product_id":"9798216494393","title":"Income Inequality in America A Reference Handbook","description":"\u003ch3\u003eContemporary World Issues\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eIncome Inequality in America\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eA Reference Handbook\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eStacey M. Jones | Robert S. Rycroft\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eSocial Science \/ Social Classes \u0026amp; Economic Disparity\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book provides a one-stop resource for understanding the full dimensions of income inequality in the USA, including chief socioeconomic drivers of inequality and proposals to reduce the widening gap between rich and poor in America.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCarefully researched and scrupulously nonpartisan, this resource examines the history and current state of income inequality in the USA, with a particular focus on key issues, events, and political\/economic philosophies relevant to the enduring divide between rich and poor in America. One of the most valuable aspects of the book is that it surveys the complex history of income inequality in an easy-to-understand fashion that helps readers identify and assess the ways in which income inequality shapes many aspects of modern American society. The book is even-handed in its treatment of the academic and policy debates over the causes, consequences, and appropriate response to today's growing inequality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn addition, this resource provides insights into the financial underpinnings of debt and wealth and capitalism and how all of those factors perpetuate themselves. It also examines problems and challenges related to child care, education, transportation, housing, and saving for retirement that hamper so many poor people in their efforts to lift their households out of poverty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStacey M. Jones\u003c\/b\u003e is a teaching professor of economics with the Albers School of Business and Economics at Seattle University, USA. Her research focuses on the historical development of women's role in the US economy, including women's role in the labor market, higher education, and the household.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert S. Rycroft is professor emeritus of Economics at the University of Mary Washington, USA. His published works include \u003ci\u003eInequality in America: Causes and Consequences \u003c\/i\u003e(2025),\u003ci\u003eThe Economics of Inequality\u003c\/i\u003e (2024)\u003ci\u003e, Discrimination, Poverty and Mobility \u003c\/i\u003e(2009), \u003ci\u003eThe American Middle Class: An Economic Encyclopedia of Progress and Poverty (\u003c\/i\u003e2017), and \u003ci\u003eThe Economics of Inequality, Poverty, and Discrimination in the 21st Century (\u003c\/i\u003e2013).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e23 July 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9798216494393\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback \/ softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e424\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51223599513740,"sku":"9798216494393","price":26.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_390208f2-5816-4a96-b30c-9ddb58d4d286.jpg?v=1783078491","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9798216494393","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}