{"id":27684,"date":"2019-06-30T11:18:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T15:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=27684"},"modified":"2019-06-30T11:18:45","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T15:18:45","slug":"solutions-to-wealth-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2019\/06\/30\/solutions-to-wealth-inequality\/","title":{"rendered":"Solutions to Wealth Inequality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>YouTube <\/em>has the video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xK472JL6Ljo\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Chuck Collins in Eugene, April 17, 2019: Solutions to Wealth Inequality<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWe are living in a time of extreme inequality, and few places are more unequal than the United States. America\u2019s 20 richest people now own more wealth than the bottom half of the rest of the population combined. Scholar and activist Chuck Collins argues that these inequalities have their roots in forty years of the powerful and wealthy rigging the entire system in their favor. He proposes a wide range of public policies to roll back decades of accelerating inequality, analyzes the barriers to progress, and shows how transformative local campaigns can be made into a national movement for change.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/xK472JL6Ljo\" style=\"border: thick ridge #009900;\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>One of the sources he mentions is <a href=\"https:\/\/inequality.org\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">inequality.org<\/a> &#8211; Your portal into the world of inequality online \u2014 and ongoing efforts to leave our planet a more equal place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube has the video Chuck Collins in Eugene, April 17, 2019: Solutions to Wealth Inequality. We are living in a time of extreme inequality, and few places are more unequal than the United States. America\u2019s 20 richest people now own more wealth than the bottom half of the rest of the population combined. Scholar and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27685,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27684\/revisions\/27685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}