What if someone told you that a single reform could reduce this country’s rates of mental illness, obesity, and homicide by two-thirds; teenage birthrates by half; and prison populations by three-quarters? What if you were told that the same reform would raise life expectancy by four years, increase social mobility and civic engagement, and give the average American worker an (...)
July 16, 2010
Books
Mind the Gap
The Spirit LevelWhy Greater Equality Makes Societies StrongerRichard Wilkinson and Kate PickettBloomsbury Press, $28, 352 pp.
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