The book by john kenneth galbraith discussed the growing gap between the increasing private wealth in the u. s. and the stagnant condition of resources allocated to the public sector.

the answer to fill in the blank in this question would be the word resource, it is defined as the money, material or people (since human resource is a very valuable good) that a company or a person has at disposition (meaning they can use the resource as they see fit), to be able to complete a task or achieve a goal.  

the mothers played a major role in confronting the government and ending the war.

the debate held in 1980 by carter and reagan was decisive for the elections. while carter tried to convince people that reagan was a "war hawk", reagan put all his efforts in showing the necessity to take care about medicare and the social security advantage. this debate reagan to win the elections