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The Divide

American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
May 07, 2014KCLSLibrarians rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
A well researched, if dismaying, portrait of our legal and political systems. Taibbi contrasts the treatment undocumented workers and ‘welfare moms’ receive in our system to the treatment and consequences visited upon Wall Street before and after the housing market collapse in 2008. In the first- people have zero rights and can be hopelessly caught up in the ‘dragnet’ of local law enforcement and in the second- people literally steal billions of dollars from investors and no one, no one goes to jail. An important read for anyone interested in what being part of the 1% (or not) really means.