Mission it is to promote compassion and creativity in our society. The john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. A more peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org. Park foundation, dedicated to public issues. Barbara g. Flashman. And by our your retirement company. Welcome. You could not have watched television the last few months without seeing senator Elizabeth Warren talking about her book, a fighting chance. And thats a good thing. Because its a terrific book. About how a little girl from oklahoma, her parents struggling to make ends meet and keep a roof over their headsp how this little girl grows up to teach at harvard, becomes the nemesis of wrongdoers on wall street, gets elected to the United States and in record time becomes the leading voice of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. But right now, let me show you something she said to me when i first interviewed her ten years ago. Middle class has been pushed right to the edge. They are on a cliff. And inc
Scuffles have broken out in hong kong. Police intervened after supporters of chinese rule clashed for the first time with prodemocracy protesters. Tens of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets, but peacefully, setting up protest signs and tents bringing parts of the city to a standstill. Talks with officials were meant to be slated for friday. Prodemocracy protesters in hong kongs standing their ground for the seventh day. But now the mood seems to be changing. This was the scene in another part of the city just a few hours earlier. A man wrestled to the ground, accused of being a china supporter. He says he was just trying to get home. How could one person fight so many persons . Fueling the tension, this incident. Scuffles broke out in the mong kok it district after a group of men tried to dismantle barricades. Some say ordinary hong kongers are fed up with the disruption. The leader appealed to calm and told all demonstrators to go home. I do not want to see any citizens
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Compassion and creativity in our society. The john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. A more peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org. Park foundation, dedicated to public issues. Barbara g. Flashman. And by our your retirement company. Welcome. You could not have watched television the last few months without seeing senator Elizabeth Warren talking about her book, a fighting chance. And thats a good thing. Because its a terrific book. About how a little girl from oklahoma, her parents struggling to make ends meet and keep a roof over their headsp how this little girl grows up to teach at harvard, becomes the nemesis of wrongdoers on wall street, gets elected to the United States and in record time becomes the leading voice of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. But right now, let me show you something she said to me when i first interviewed her ten years ago. Middle class has been pushed right to the edge. They are on a cliff. And increasing numbers are falli
We continue our conversation with one of the worlds most influential economists sited by his colleagues in the field. Hes a nobel laureate, and hes mad as hell, infuriated by americas growing inequality as those at the top buy the politicians who write the rules that rig the system. Hes especially angry at how the tax code has been manipulated and abused to place the burden on the earners of ordinary income, instead of on the rich and powerful most able to pay. But Joseph Stiglitz says there are solutions. Heres what he told us in our last episode we have a tax system that reflects not the interest of the middle. We have a tax system that reflects the interest of the one percent. And i want to do is create a tax system that has incentives to create jobs. And if you tell a corporation, look it, if you dont create jobs, youre taking out of our system, youre not putting back, youre going to pay a high tax. But if you put back into our system by investing, then you can get your tax rate do