Includes bibliographical references and index.

Is income inequality in the United States a problem? Income inequality is higher in the United States than elsewhere / Steven J. Markovich ; Growing inequality is a serious social problem / Joseph E. Stiglitz ; Income inequality is not a problem / Richard A. Epstein ; Inequality is a problem for middle-class and low-income workers / Sean McElwee ; Income inequality is not a problem for the poor and middle class / Gary Burtless ; The life enhancing, unrelenting brilliance of income inequality / John Tamny ; Why inequality is bad for you--and everyone else / Richard Wilkinson -- How do gender, race, and ethnicity affect income? Gender, race, and ethnicity negatively affect earnings / Ariane Hegewisch, Claudia Williams, Heidi Hartmann, and Stephanie Keller Hudiburg ; The gender wage gap is not as extreme for young women / Pew Research Center ; The gender wage gap is caused by a variety of factors / Sarah Jane Glynn ; The gender wage gap is due to women's choices / June E. O'Neill ; The gender wage gap is ugly. So is the right-wing effort to deny it / Bryce Covert ; Black-white income differences : what's happened? / Arthur MacEwan ; Racial disparities in wealth are even worse than income inequality / Signe-Mary McKernan, Caroline Ratcliffe, Eugene Steuerle, and Sisi Zhang -- What causes income inequality? High executive compensation has increased income inequality / Lawrence Mishel and Natalie Sabadish ; Stop obsessing over exorbitant CEO pay / Zachary Karabell ; Income inequality is caused by stagnating middle-class incomes / Laura Tyson ; Income inequality is caused by government intervention / Ronald Bailey ; As two-parent families decline, income inequality grows / Jeff Jacoby -- What should be done about income inequality? How to shrink inequality / Robert B. Reich ; The misguided focus on income inequality / David Azerrad and Rea S. Hederman Jr. ; Only political inequality, not market inequality, should be eliminated / Sheldon Richman ; Quality education would improve income inequality / Josh Kraushaar ; Knowledge isn't power / Paul Krugman ; Higher education will alleviate inequality only if it is affordable / Ronald Brownstein ; Cultural inequality is the problem that needs to be addressed / Charles Murray.