The economic crash of 2008 has deep roots. Since 1973 the rewards of work have been shrinking for most of us. The United States is well on the way to losing its entire middle class, becoming a country of rich and very rich in one camp and common people struggling with distress in the other.Yet, as the saying goes, things change. No Rich, No Poor explains how we got to this condition and why a program of common prosperity is the historical task of our time.Author Charles Andrews previously wrote Profit Fever, reporting on the single payer movement for health reform in California.