Why Poverty and Inequality Undermine Justice in America; Mark Rank, PhD; 2-Feb-2025

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This talk will touch upon three questions. First, what does the concept of justice mean within an American context? Second, what do we know about the extent and depth of poverty and economic inequality in the United States? And third, why do the high levels of poverty and economic inequality that we find in the U.S. undermine the notion of American justice? I’ll argue that answering these three questions is important to providing both an empirical and a moral justification for the concerns and anger that people have been expressing over the past decade regarding economic inequality in the United States.