Award-winning investigative journalist and founder/editor of ConsortiumNews.com, Robert Parry has passed away. His ground-breaking work uncovering Reagan-era dirty wars in Central America and many other illegal and immoral policies conducted by successive administrations and U.S. intelligence agencies, stands as an inspiration to all in journalists working in the public interest.
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"How Do We Build A Mass Movement to Reverse Runaway Inequality?" with Les Leopold, author of "Runaway Inequality: An Activist's Guide to Economic Justice,"May 22, 2016, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York, 860 11th Ave. (Between 58th and 59th), New York City. Between The Lines' Scott Harris and Richard Hill moderated this workshop. Listen to the audio/slideshows and more from this workshop.
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Listen to the full interview (30:33) with Jeremy Scahill, an award-winning investigative journalist with the Nation Magazine, correspondent for Democracy Now! and author of the bestselling book, "Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army," about America's outsourcing of its military. In an exclusive interview with Counterpoint's Scott Harris on Sept. 16, 2013, Scahill talks about his latest book, "Dirty Wars, The World is a Battlefield," also made into a documentary film under the same title, and was nominated Dec. 5, 2013 for an Academy Award in the Best Documentary Feature category.
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Interview with William K. Black, associate professor of economics and law at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, Mo., conducted by Scott Harris
While the Occupy Wall Street movement’s emergence in New York City and around the country last fall focused attention and debate on the nation’s growing income inequality over recent decades, a new report by the Federal Reserve reveals stark evidence of the economic damage caused by the economic meltdown. The Federal Reserve report found that from 2007 to 2010, the median net worth of American families dropped by 39 percent, bringing the levels of household wealth down to levels last seen in 1992. The dramatic decline in family wealth wiped out almost 20 years of accumulated savings and investments. As calculated by the Fed, an American family’s median wealth decreased from $126,000 in 2007 to just $77,300 in 2010.
The Federal Reserve found that middle-class families had suffered the largest losses in accumulated wealth and income during the three-year period ending in 2010. But the report also revealed that poor families were also extremely hard hit, with a widening wealth gap between whites and blacks and Hispanics. The Fed attributed three-quarters of the loss in wealth to the crash of the nation’s housing market, triggering a steep decline in the value of homes across most of the nation.
The report’s findings explains why many families across America are hesitant to spend their decreasing pool of money on small and large purchases, contributing to the sluggish economic recovery. Between The Lines’ Scott Harris spoke with William K. Black, associate professor of economics and law at the University of Missouri, who served as the deputy staff director of the National Commission on Financial Institution Reform, Recovery and Enforcement, which investigated the cause of the savings and loan bank failures of the 1980s and '90s. Here, Black examines the causes of the dramatic decline in American family wealth during the nation’s Great Recession.
William K. Black is author of “The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One.” For Black's articles and scholarly papers, visit www.alternet.org/authors/11268/ and http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=658251.
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