James B. Steele is known as one of America’s finest investigative reporters — and he also happens to be a graduate of the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
He made his name reporting with Donald Bartlett at the Philadelphia Inquirer after a stint at The Kansas City Times. The two wrote several books together, including one that remained on The New York Times’ best seller list for months.
That 1992 book, titled “America: What Went Wrong,” documented how tax policies and deregulation were impacting the middle class and how the health care and retirement systems were eroding…