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Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power is a book by political activist and linguist Noam Chomsky. It was created and edited by Peter Hutchison, Kelly Nyks, and Jared P. Scott. It lays out Chomsky's analysis of neoliberalism.
Who Rules America? is a book by research psychologist and sociologist G. William Domhoff, Ph.D., published in 1967 as a best-seller (#12). WRA is frequently assigned as a sociology textbook, documenting the dangerous concentration of power and wealth in the American upper class . [ 1 ]
Share Our Wealth was a movement that began in February 1934, during the Great Depression, by Huey Long, a governor and later United States Senator from Louisiana. [1] Long first proposed the plan in a national radio address, which is now referred to as the "Share Our Wealth Speech". [ 2 ]
The American upper class is a social group within the United States consisting of people who have the highest social rank, due to economic wealth, lineage, and typically educational attainment. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The American upper class is estimated to be the richest 1% of the population.
The American people and the economy have suffered repeatedly from their dependence on fossil fuels. The U.S. controls neither the supply nor price of oil; the world’s petroleum market does.
After the Great Recession which started in 2007, the share of total wealth owned by the top 1% of the population grew from 34.6% to 37.1%, and that owned by the top 20% of Americans grew from 85% to 87.7%. The Great Recession also caused a drop of 36.1% in median household wealth but a drop of only 11.1% for the top 1%. [55] [53]
With the prices of goods and services rapidly rising across America, many people find it difficult to entertain the idea of building wealth. Many believe the system works against them and that only...
This, he says, has caused the wealth gap with many people barely getting by while others thrive. “It was an agrarian economy a couple hundred years ago,” he said in an interview with CNN.