America has never been richer. But the gains are so lopsided that the top 10% controls 69% of all wealth in the country, while the bottom half controls just 3%, Nathan Meyers writes.
Nathan Meyers
Nathan Meyers is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is an economic and organizational sociologist specializing in privatization, labor markets, finance and earnings inequality. His recent dissertation, "Revenge of the Private Sector: Union Decline, Privatization, and the Restructuring of the American Economy," uses advanced econometric methods to reveal how privatization has reshaped the U.S. economy, often at the expense of workers.
