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Income inequality
Larry Summers on income inequality
Jul 30, 2012
Former Treasury Secretary and top economic advisor to President Barack Obama Lawrence Summers talks about education and income inequality in the U.S., and the state of the world economy.
Can the free market provide opportunity for all?
Jul 30, 2012
Arthur Brooks, the president of the American Enterprise Institute, argues that raising taxes won't help the poor and that the free market is the way to bring people out of poverty.
Arthur Laffer on income inequality, raising taxes
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Jeff Horwich
Jul 26, 2012
The father of supply-side economics explains why he's against raising taxes on the rich, and the problems with being so against income inequality.
Two thirds of Americans aren't economically mobile
Jul 9, 2012
A new study from Pew's economic mobility project finds that only about one third of Americans have achieved a better economic position than their parents.
Economist Joseph Stiglitz on income inequality in the U.S.
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Kai Ryssdal
Jun 6, 2012
The Nobel Prize for Economics winner talks about how he thinks income inequality is harming our economy.
Nick Hanauer on the TED talk, income inequality controversy
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Kai Ryssdal
May 18, 2012
The venture capitalist discusses his controversial TED talk, why income and inequality has become political and what happens next.
What Occupy Wall Street left behind
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Kai Ryssdal
Apr 23, 2012
Zuccotti Park is empty these days, with no signs of another uprising, but the issues the protests brought to light in the national conversation still linger today.
For public good, not for profit.
What is the wealth gap?
Mar 1, 2012
Those at the top have an increasingly bigger share, while middle and low incomes stagnate.
How net wealth widens the gap
Jan 19, 2012
When you look at net wealth instead of income, the gap between the 1 percent and the 99 grows exponentially.
Attitudes changing on divide between rich and poor
Jan 11, 2012
A Pew survey says Americans now think the conflict between rich and poor is more important than between whites and blacks or immigrants and the native-born.