Wealth and Poverty

While I’m thinking about it, here is another collection of videos from Robert Reich. Because I haven’t made it through all of these yet, I want an easy way to find and watch them.

Enjoy!

Class Sessions

Part I — The problem

Class 1: What’s happened to wealth and income in America over the last 40 years, and should we care?

Class 2: The investor’s view: What’s the role of capital markets in driving inequality?

Class 3: Globalization, technological change, and the jobs of the future: Is widening inequality inevitable?

Class 4: Widening inequalities of place: How does the sorting mechanism work?

Class 5: The altered balance of power between capital and labor: What’s been the consequence of increasing monopolization and decreasing unionization?

Class 6: The interaction of wealth and political power: What’s the vicious cycle? 

Part II — The struggle toward solutions

Class 7: Taxing and redistributing: Are these reversing the vicious cycle?

Class 8: Macroeconomic policy: How do fiscal and monetary policy aggravate or ameliorate inequality?

Class 9: Systemic racism: How does racism interact with class, and what can be done to reduce racial inequalities?

Class 10: Public assistance, work requirements, and the “deserving” poor: Why has public assistance to the poor shifted toward requiring work, and what are the consequences?

Class 11: Reducing health inequalities: How can our health care system become more equitable? 

Class 12: Reducing environmental inequities: What can be done to protect the more vulnerable from climate devastation? 

Class 13: Reducing educational inequities: How can we ensure that everyone has access to a good education?

Class 14: The future of inequality: Where do we (and you) go from here?