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Showing videos filed under: wealth gap
Michelle Alexander: End The Drug War: Face the New Jim Crow
July 30, 2011The war on drugs is the engine of 21st century discrimination that has brought Jim Crow with us into the age of Obama.The F Word: Do We Really Want to Stimulate This Economy?
July 27, 2009After years of tax cuts and salary hikes for people at the top, and a wage feeze or roll back at the bottom, corporate executives and top employees now account for more than one-third of all salaries earned in the United States. According to Social Security Administration figures, top earners pulled in $2.1 trillion of the total $6.4 trillion paid in 2007. To state that again: of the pool of salary money that's paid out in this country -- a third of it goes to just the very top earners.Super Rich Tax Cheats
August 4, 2008A report from the American News Project examines how the super rich avoid paying taxes and what it means for public welfare. Is congress finally willing to crack down? Find out here.The F Word: Rich v. Poor in the U.S. Education System
July 8, 2008Jonathan Kozol, the great chronicler of what's happened to our schools, wrote Savage Inequalities a few years back, which did more than just about any other book to wake Americans up to our nation’s two-tier public school system: suburbs vs. urban centers, poor community vs. rich...Tuesday, June 3, 2008
June 3, 2008At the end of primary season, we listen to the fury. What are women in particular angry about when they’re angry about Hillary Clinton’s situation? For many, it’s less about the candidate – that’s what campaign season has revealed – it’s about how far women have or haven’t come.
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