This is the story of how public goods in this country–from parks and pools to functioning schools–have become private luxuries of how unions collapsed, wages stagnated, and inequality increased and of how this country, unique among the world’s advanced economies, has thwarted universal healthcare. Along the way, she meets white people who confide in her about losing their homes, their dreams, and their shot at better jobs to the toxic mix of American racism and greed. But how did this happen? And is there a way out? McGhee embarks on a deeply personal journey across the country from Maine to Mississippi to California, tallying what we lose when we buy into the zero-sum paradigm–the idea that progress for some of us must come at the expense of others. It is the common denominator of our most vexing public problems, the core dysfunction of our democracy and constitutive of the spiritual and moral crises that grip us all. But not just in the most obvious indignities for people of color. From the financial crisis to rising student debt to collapsing public infrastructure, she found a common root problem: racism. It is the common denominator Heather McGhee’s specialty is the American economy–and the mystery of why it so often fails the American public.

Heather McGheeʼs specialty is the American economy–and the mystery of why it so often fails the American public. You can read this before The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together written by Heather McGhee which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee

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