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Why is inequality widening?

No simple answer, but you might find useful this free viewing of our film "Inequality for All"

Robert Reich
Oct 12, 2021
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Widening inequality of income, wealth, and political power is at the core of many of our nation’s problems. Why is it happening? In my view, the three biggest causes are the decline of labor unions, the monopolization of large swaths of the economy, and the growing political power of moneyed interests to alter the rules of the economic system in their f…

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