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Article: Time for U.S. society to reknit its unraveling social compact.(Column)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- August 1, 1997
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Almost two decades ago, inequality of income, wealth and opportunity began to widen, and the gap today is greater than at any time in living memory. The recently published Locked in a Cabinet by Robert Reich, former secretary of labor, raises serious questions about the disintegration of the social compact that has held us together as a nation.
Every society is defined by a social compact that sets out the obligations of its members to one another. America's mid-20th century social compact, says Reich, defined our sense of fair play and proclaimed that at some fundamental level we all depend on one another. It affirmed that the economy could not prosper unless ...
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