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Melissa Fry
Sociology Professor and Director of the Applied Research and Education Center at Indiana University Southeast. Research focuses on community development and the roles of the state, market and private nonprofit organizations in meeting community needs.
The Price of Inequality
Some level of inequality can and does promote growth, but when we gut the middle class and achieve a level of inequality that decreases economic mobility, inequality no longer functions as an effective driver of growth. Without ladders of mobility and a higher level of shared prosperity, evidenced by a strong and broad middle class, the result is economic instability as Mr. Stiglitz suggests. The economy effectively collapses in on itself as the share of the population that can afford to buy the goods and services produced declines.