The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future (71 page)

youth:

   financial sector’s employment of, 96

   poverty among, 17

   social situation of, 14–15, 265, 303

   unemployment among, x, xviii–xix, 12, 265

   voting by, 134, 351

   
see also
student loans

Yunus, Muhammad, 196

Zuckerberg, Mark, 41

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Stiglitz, Joseph E.

The price of inequality : how today’s divided society
endangers our future / Joseph E. Stiglitz. — 1st ed.

         p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-393-08869-4 (hbk.)

1. Income distribution—Social aspects—United States.
2. Equality—United States. 3. United States—Economic conditions—
21st century. 4. United States—Social conditions—21st century. I. Title.

HC110.I5S867 2012

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