Osher 2021 Session Two: Economic Inequality: Realities

Session Two: Economic Inequality: Realities 

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Music:  Billy Joel, "Allentown," Link to Video

Essential Questions: (1) What is Income Inequality? Wealth inequality?

(2) How did the current income inequality come to be in the US?

Gathering:  "A question that I have from the reading is..."

Rick’s Rap:
• Overview of Reich's Key Points
• Reich's three questions

Video:  

• Robert Reich, "Inequality for all," youtube Link to Vide
• Bill  Moyers with Robert Reich, Moyers and Friends, 10/1/13 Link to Video

Breakout Room Debrief

            

Closing: Something that I learned in this session was…..

Readings

• Key points from Dr. Robert Reich's "Inequality for All," http://shwindow.org.s68933.gridserver.com/docs/Inequality_for_All_Q_A.pdf?1383324226
• The Editorial Board, "The Jobs We Need," New York Times, 6/24/20, Link to article
• Robert Reich, "When Bosses Shared Their Profits," NYTimes, 6/25/20 Link to article

Resources

• Valentina Romei, "How the Pandemic is Worsening Inequality," Financial Times, 12/31/20 Link to article

• Editorial Board, "The America We Need, " New York Times , 4/9/20   Link to article

• The Roosevelt Institute, Link to site

• Washington Center for Equitable Growth, Link to site

• Robert Reich, "Inequality for All," Youtube  Link to video
• Mathew Yglesisas, "The short guide to Capital in the 21st Century", Vox, 4/8/14 Link to article
• "An Introduction to Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century," youtube, Link to video
• Idress Mahlon, "Thomas Piketty Goes Global,"  New Yorker, 3/2/20  Link to article
• Robert Reich, "Beware the 21st Century Robber Barons, Common Dreams, 7/8/20 Link to article

 • Thomas Piketty, "New Thoughts on Capital in the 21st Century," 10/6/14 Link to video

• Nicholas Lemann, "Thomas Piketty's Radical Plan to Redistribute Wealth, "NY Times, 4/19/22 Link to site

There are two modes of invading private property; the first, by which the poor plunder the rich...sudden and violent; the second, by which the rich plunder the the poor, slow and legal.
John Taylor, An Inquiry into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States (1814)

from Robert Reich, "Saving Capitalism For the Many, Not the Few," Vintage Books, 2015