Dream a Little American Dream with Me: Income Inequality and Social Mobility in the United States.

Autor: LAMMERT, CHRISTIAN
Zdroj: Amerikastudien; 2021, Vol. 66 Issue 1, p111-115, 5p
Abstrakt: The article focuses on exposure of the labor market to global economic integration leading to growing income and wealth inequalities, and a decline of social mobility in the U.S. It mentions trust in political elites and institutions has declined massively, and populist and anti-establishment rhetoric and mobilization. It also mentions massive rise in income inequality, but redistribution via the tax and transfer system and globalization and the dominance of neoliberal economic ideas.
Databáze: Supplemental Index