Escaping Poverty Requires Almost 20 Years with Nearly Nothing Going Wrong
The first sentence already contains a lie.
<i>"A lot of factors have contributed to American inequality: slavery, economic policy, technological change, the power of lobbying, globalization, and so on."</i>
Slavery ended more than 150 years ago.  To claim that it is a contributing factor to <i>current</i> economic inequality is absurd.  Racism and discrimination, sure.  But not slavery.