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Pizzigati: Inequality is a Class Issue, Not a Generational One


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In his recent article in Inequality.org entitled “To Best Understand Inequality, Think Class, Not Generation: Our age cohorts don’t tell the full story“, author and Associate Fellow at the Institution for Policy Studies, Sam Pizzigati, discusses why the wealth inequality is causing each generation to do worse than the previous one. And, he has some suggestions of how to make the system more equal — by following the formulas that turned around wealth inequality in the early 20th century — including unionization, and recreating the high taxes on the uber-rich.

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