Since the end of the 1970s, something has gone profoundly wrong in America. Inequality has soared. Educational progress slowed. Incarceration rates quintupled. Family breakdown accelerated. Median household income stagnated.

Health and the Income Inequality Hypothesis.

Conservatives highlight the primacy of family and argue that family breakdown exacerbates poverty, and they're right. Children raised by single parents are three times as likely to live in poverty as kids in two-parent homes.

America’s education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.

It's maddening in my travels to watch children dying simply because they were born in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Inequality causes problems by creating fissures in societies, leaving those at the bottom feeling marginalized or disenfranchised.