Howard quoted in USA Today magazine article on income inequality

Michael Howard, a professor of philosophy at the University of Maine, was quoted in a September 2018 USA Today magazine article about the disproportionate share of wealth in the United States. Today, 10 percent of Americans possess 76 percent of the nation’s wealth; the top one percent owns 40 percent; and, according to a 2017 study, the richest three Americans own more wealth than the bottom half of the U.S. population combined, the article states. “If income inequalities exceed that socially useful differential, then you have a situation in which some people are getting higher incomes at the expense of others who have lower incomes and there is no social benefit,” Howard said.