Inequality For All

As the world’s wealthy continue to accumulate ever greater riches and the needy slowly slide deeper into poverty, it seems easy to believe it has always been this way.  Haven’t the underprivileged always fought an uphill battle? Meanwhile, Jacob Kornbluth’s  Sundance award-winning documentary proves that today’s appalling income disparity is the product of the last twenty years. Shocking? Not so. What is more interesting, however, is how this came about and who is to blame.  This film answers those questions via Robert Reich, a man of diminutive height but tremendous sense of humor and academic expertise  :  professor of economics, political commentator, and Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton. Inequality is a colossal threat to the economy and to democracy, which is why Reich encourages everyone to work to change our world. As he says, "Politics is not out there, it starts here".