This testimony from Robert Greenstein, the executive director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, went largely unnoticed outside the House Ways and Means hearing room. But the testimony, fortunately, lives online. If you’re looking for something sober to read after Election Day, something that will focus you on the core reality of our time that so needs changing, start here.
11.04.2008
Reading matter for the days ahead
Last week, with desperate candidates bombarding the airwaves with caustic attacks on “spreading the wealth,” the top staffer of the closest thing America has to an inequality think tank came before Congress and delivered a rigorously thoughtful analysis of just how wide America’s great economic divide has become — and how we might start closing the gap.
