The john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org. Park foundation, dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The kohlberg foundation. Barbara g. Fleischman. And by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Welcome. Heres something to make you really, really mad. Our countrys infrastructure is crumbling. Potholes are becoming sinkholes, axlekillers, tirebusters. Our cities struggle to pay for services. The powersthatbe in bankrupt detroit even cut off the water to some residents. Schools and libraries are closing. Public parks decay. And the war party in washington clamors for billions of dollars more for foreign interventions bombs, rockets, drones, even troops. 20 million americans who would like a fulltime job still cant get one, yet corporations are sitting on
Welcome. 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 ta
Welcome. 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 ta
The herb alpert foundation, supporting organizations Whose Mission is to promote compassion and creativity in our society. The john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org. Park foundation, dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The kohlberg foundation. Barbara g. Fleischman. And by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Welcome. On this fourth of july weekend, think about the authors of the declaration of independence who had the courage and nerve to stand up to the British Crown and say, enough. And think of the everyday people, regular people, who then put themselves on the line to back up that declaration. Those patriots have their counterparts today in the fight against the modern tyranny of organized money and its chokehold on our government. These c
Mosquitos. We start with talks with north korea in decades. Japans top diplomat for Asian Affairs led the 12member team. The group arrived in pyongyang on monday. Early the next day, the head of north koreas special investigation committee, so tae ha, created the greeted the visitors. I know there are differences of opinion in your country about this visit. I think the trip is a positive step forward. Showing the japanese governments will to follow up on our previous agreement. A briefing took place on what the norths four investigative panels said they had learned so far. Each panel is looking into a particular part of the problem. What became of abducted japanese, missing japanese, those left behind during world war ii, and japanese spouses of north koreans, and the remains of japanese who died in the north near the end of the war. So and some of the officials involved are attached to the ministry of state security. It is thought to be a kind of secret Police Organization whose repre