Disposable Americans: extreme capitalism and the case for a guaranteed income

Inequality has dramatically increased in America, with few solutions on the horizon.

Serious social inequalities persist. For example, the 14 richest Americans earned enough money from their investments in 2015 to hire two million preschool teachers (while the USA ranks low among developed countries in preschool enrollment).

Following the Great Recession, the richest one percent took 116 percent of the new income gains, a statistic caused by so many middle-class Americans moving backward, many losing investments in property and experiencing interruptions in work.

Author Paul Buchheit looks hopefully to solutions in a book that vividly portrays the rapidly changing inequality of American society.