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Income Inequality and Social Justice in America

In the US, the gap is widening fast between fewer and fewer rich people and everyone else. Do Americans care? Do they believe that everyone's getting their just deserts? If they aren't rich already, do they think they or their children will be?

By Warren Olney • Apr 8, 2011 • 51m Listen

In the US, the gap is widening fast between fewer and fewer rich people and everyone else. Do Americans care? Do they believe everyone's getting their just deserts? Also, abortion and the federal budget talks, and in Wisconsin, a disputed election with shades of the recounts for Al Franken in Minnesota and George W. Bush in Florida.

Banner image: A businessman walks by a homeless woman holding a card requesting money in New York City. Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Warren Olney
former KCRW broadcaster
Frances Anderton
architecture critic and author
Sonya Geis
Senior Managing Editor
Andrea Brody
Senior Producer, KCRW's Life Examined and To the Point podcast

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Income Inequality and Social Justice in America

In the US, the gap is widening fast between fewer and fewer rich people and everyone else. Do Americans care? Do they believe that everyone's getting their just deserts? If they aren't rich already, do they think they or their children will be?

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To the Point

Income Inequality and Social Justice in America

In the US, the gap is widening fast between fewer and fewer rich people and everyone else. Do Americans care? Do they believe that everyone's getting their just deserts? If they aren't rich already, do they think they or their children will be?

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