Well Read Red: Economic Growth Does Not Mitigate Poverty or Inequality

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Wed, 09/15/2010 - 12:00am
Well Read Red: Economic Growth and Inequality

 Well Read Red, Tom Becker, draws on two articles* to connect the ideology of economic growth with growing poverty/unemployment and growing concentration of wealth.

*Dave Lindorf's "Obama's Rose-Colored Glasses: Growth Has Little To Do With Jobs or Reducing Poverty"

*David McGraw's "The Richest 1% Have Captured America's Wealth"

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