Solve inequality with democracy: the agenda will change only when ordinary people take control of it.(Political inequality: remedies)
American Prospect, The, June, 2004 by Rapoport, Miles S.; Smith, David (American novelist)
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WE BOTH WORK IN NEW YORK CITY, WHERE the deepening inequality documented in the preceding articles is palpable in everyday life. Housing prices in Manhattan recently reached an average of $1 million, a cost that requires annual earnings of about $400,000 to amortize. Looking at the country as a whole, CEOs in the financial sector receive compensation packages in the tens of millions, about 500 times the median household income.
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Meanwhile, working families struggle to find public schooling for their children, increasing numbers of ordinary people endure two- and three-hour ...
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