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"""How resistance to fix economic inequality is tied to the persistent myth of meritocracy, and how to change the narrative""--"

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Included in Publishers Weekly's Fall 2023 Adult Announcements Business and Economics Top 10 List

"Included in Publishers Weekly's Fall 2023 Adult Announcements Business and Economics Top 10 List ""A thoughtful call for equality of economic opportunity, both provocative and, in the end, eminently practical."" —Kirkus Reviews “Economist Fuhrer carefully deconstructs this myth and discusses discriminatory policies designed to disadvantage people of color, such as the exclusion of domestic and agricultural workers, who were disproportionately likely to be people of color, from New Deal minimum wage and overtime pay requirements…The troubling interviews and statistics underscore the difficulty of “making it” in America, and the proposed solutions are pragmatic and well considered. Readers will be outraged by this scathing indictment of America’s failure to live up to its meritocratic ideals.” —Publishers Weekly"

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Jeff Fuhrer is a Foundation Fellow at the Eastern Bank Foundation. He was previously Executive Vice President and Director of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, where he was also responsible for the bank's diversity and inclusion functions.

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