Timothy Noah is Labor Policy Editor for Politico and a senior staff writer at RemappingDebate.org. He is the author of The Great Divergence: America’s Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do about It, a former contributor to MSNBC, and a former staff writer for Slate.
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