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Monday, April 13, 2015

We've Heard A Lot About Concentrated Poverty But What About Concentrated Wealth?

"Plutocracy Triumphant"
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Pope Francis: Quotations On Finance, Economics, Capitalism And Inequality

Teddy Roosevelt: "Malefactors Of Great Wealth... Are Curses To The Country"

We've heard a lot about concentrated poverty, but what about concentrated affluence? "Many cities have more areas of segregated affluence than they do poverty. ... Public policy has 'focused on the concentration of poverty and residential segregation. This has problematized non-white and high-poverty neighborhoods,' said [Ed] Goetz, the director of the Center for Urban and Rural Affairs at the University of Minnesota, when presenting his findings at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. 'It’s shielded the other end of the spectrum from scrutiny—to the point where we think segregation of whites is normal.' ... The government spends just as many housing dollars in areas of poverty as it does in areas of affluence. In racially concentrated areas of affluence, federal dollars come in the form of the mortgage-interest deduction. In areas of poverty, they come through vouchers and subsidized housing units." Alana Semuels in The Atlantic

Inequality: Joseph Stiglitz Brilliant Reflection On Obama's State Of The Union Address

"Of The 1%, By The 1%, For The 1%,"
Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz

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