Get the 'Wealth Hoarders' To Pay For the Biden Infrastructure Bill

Get the 'Wealth Hoarders' To Pay For the Biden Infrastructure Bill

Claudia Cragg @claudiacragg speaks here for @KGNU (Denver, Boulder, Fort Collins, www.kgnu.org) for #ItsTheEconomy with Chuck Collins, senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies. There, he directs the Program on Inequality and the Common Good. Collins latest book is The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions. He has written a number of other books including '99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do About It', and 'Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality', 'Bringing Wealth Home', and 'Committing to the Common Good'. He has also written numerous reports about billionaire wealth during the pandemic. Discussion in this latest interview for @KGNU focuses on getting the Biden Infrastructure Bill paid for in a way that is also combined with tackling the egregious crisis of inequality in the United States. This is is so serious now, says Collins, that President Joe Biden is declaiming that, "It's time to build our economy from the bottom up and from the middle out, not the top down." In recent speeches promoting his Infrastructure Bill and his American Jobs Plan, President Biden said, "I'm proposing a plan for the nation that rewards work, not just rewards wealth." In admitting that our current system rewards wealth, President Biden revealed what American financial and political elites have known for decades: that we do NOT live in a meritocracy. Instead, we live in a nation where you have to be rich to get richer.

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Reforming The World's Financial Systems Heretically - Brett Scott

Reforming The World's Financial Systems Heretically - Brett Scott

(Reprise from 2014, but very sadly the US - and indeed the world's - financial system has not been reformed to offset inbuilt disadvantages against the economically underserved or deprived. Here at #I...

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Texas Proves Anti-Racist, Feminist Policies Must Be Applied vs. Climate Change

Texas Proves Anti-Racist, Feminist Policies Must Be Applied vs. Climate Change

Claudia Cragg speaks here for @KGNU with Dr. Jennie C. Stephens, @jenniecstephens, the Director of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and the Dean's Professor of Sustainability Science & Po...

18 Helmi 202122min

The Democratization of Tech as Business Aide during COVID TImes

The Democratization of Tech as Business Aide during COVID TImes

Claudia Cragg @KGNU (@claudiacragg) addresses the business operational adjustments everyone is having to make in what we hope will soon be a post-COVID world. At Zenreach, where he is CEO, John Kelly ...

11 Helmi 202130min

Rape, (inJustice) and The Objects That Remain

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Claudia Cragg @claudiacragg speaks here with Laura Levitt @llevitttemple about her book, The Objects That Remain. On a November evening in 1989, Laura Levitt was raped in her own bed. Her landlord hea...

27 Tammi 202129min

Small Planet's Moore Lappe - Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want

Small Planet's Moore Lappe - Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want

Many Americans have been distraught for the last four years as tightly held economic and political power drowned out their voices and values. But now, with a new administration and the Biden-Harris pa...

21 Tammi 202127min

Nuclear Disaster Update for Fukushima Daichi Japan

Nuclear Disaster Update for Fukushima Daichi Japan

Claudia Cragg speaks here for @KGNU with Caitlin Stronell, for an update about the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, an 11 March 2011 nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in...

14 Tammi 202131min

In Her Own Words, An Essential Mental Health Worker on the CO Covid Frontline

In Her Own Words, An Essential Mental Health Worker on the CO Covid Frontline

Claudia Cragg @claudiacragg speaks here with an essential mental health worker on the Colorado front lines in the age of the COVID19 pandemic.

7 Tammi 202128min

Christa Parravani, on Her Reckoning with Life, Death and Choice.

Christa Parravani, on Her Reckoning with Life, Death and Choice.

Claudia Cragg @claudiacragg speaks here with Christa Parravani @cparravani about her harrowing account, Loved and Wanted, the story of one woman's reckoning with life, death and "choice". It is, she s...

16 Joulu 202033min

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