MOYERS = Inequality: An Essential Reader
Inequality: An Essential Reader
December 23, 2013
http://billmoyers.com/2013/12/23/inequality-an-essential-reader/
As we near the end of 2013, it suddenly seems everyone’s talking about inequality. Earlier this month, Barack Obama spoke of a “relentless decades-long trend” of “dangerous and growing inequality and lack of upward mobility.” Around the same time, in a papal exhortation, Pope Francis wrote, “Just as the commandment ‘Thou shalt not kill’ sets a clear limit in order to safeguard the value of human life, today we also have to say ‘thou shalt not’ to an economy of exclusion and inequality. Such an economy kills.” And a month earlier in New York — the most unequal big city in the US — Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio won a landslide victory campaigning on the issue.
But just how bad is American inequality? How did we arrive at this new Gilded Age? And how might we create an economy of broadly shared prosperity?
If you’ve got questions, we’ve (hopefully) got the answers in this Essential Reader…
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