Tag: America

8 months ago Chris Oestereich

Are Guns the Problem?

Are guns the problem? It's time to have an honest conversation. https://t.co/WhTJyQE9HQ — Governor Matt Bevin (@GovMattBevin) February 16, 2018 Kentucky’s governor Matt Bevin gave a short interview to the Cincinnati Enquirer about the issue of guns in America. Below is the CC transcript of the interview from YouTube. (Hence the lack of punctuation.) I’ve […]

If you found this intewpc. wicked problems collaborative, inequality, publisher, Brexit, universal basic incomesresting, I welcome you to check out my books. I'm currently finishing up the last part of the book on Brexit that I'm serializing. Parts (1) covering the challenges in the EU prior to the referendum, & 2) which dives into the primary factors that drove the referendum's result, are already out. Part 3, which covers the events and circumstances following the EU referendum in June 2016, is scheduled for late 2018.  The first book by the Wicked Problems Collaborative, an anthology titled, "What do we do about inequality?" is also available!

 

8 Jul, 2013 costrike

Can Inequality in America Get Any Worse?

PBS Frontline has a special airing on Tuesday night (7/9/13) on our growing inequality issues. Check out the trailer for that program.

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I encourage you to watch that program and if you feel so inclined, I’ve linked out to a handful of related articles below.

It seems we’ve allowed ourselves to fall into a reverse Robin Hood economic mess and we’ve got to be better informed if we’re going to pull ourselves out of it. (And that’s to say nothing to of the growing challenges of resource constraints which further complicate matters.) The chart below shows the trend of our Gini Coefficient over the past four plus decades.

If you found this intewpc. wicked problems collaborative, inequality, publisher, Brexit, universal basic incomesresting, I welcome you to check out my books. I'm currently finishing up the last part of the book on Brexit that I'm serializing. Parts (1) covering the challenges in the EU prior to the referendum, & 2) which dives into the primary factors that drove the referendum's result, are already out. Part 3, which covers the events and circumstances following the EU referendum in June 2016, is scheduled for late 2018.  The first book by the Wicked Problems Collaborative, an anthology titled, "What do we do about inequality?" is also available!