Common Ground with Jane Whitney

A Tale of Two Economies - How Wealth Inequality is Making America Poor

While the pandemic crushed the dreams of millions, shuttering businesses and schools and leaving millions jobless, the wealthy reaped a bonanza and watched their net worth more than double. They became richer while the poor got poorer. Already at historic heights before the pandemic, wealth inequality by many measures now is worse than during the Gilded Age and divides the country into the haves and the have-nots. And that endangers us all by cutting social mobility, increasing crime and empowering authoritarians. In the eleventh show of the season, Common Ground will examine the consequences of this cleavage, the values that drive economic policy and the connections between our political and economic crises. Guest: Mark Cuban.

Channel: WGTE HD

Length: 00:56:46 / Episode: 211