As a result, America’s children have become worse off. Their fate is a painful example of how inequality not only undermines economic growth and stability – as economists and organizations like the International Monetary Fund are finally acknowledging – but also violates our most cherished notions of what a fair society should look like.
结果，美国儿童的境况每况愈下。他们的命运是一个惨痛的教训，说明了不平等性不但破坏经济增长和稳定——经济学家和国际货币基金组织（IMF）等组织总算开始承认这一点了——也有悖于我们最珍视的公平社会的概念。