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CONF: Income Inequality and US Politics and Culture

 
Friday, October 24, 2014, 10:00am - 04:00pm
     

Income Inequality and U.S. Politics and Culture

Since the 1970s, the United States has witnessed a sharp divergence in economic fortunes, as the incomes of the wealthiest Americans have exploded while middle-class incomes have largely stagnated. This conference considers the effects of growing income inequality on the worldviews, policy ideas, and institutional practices of major U.S. political parties, electoral campaigns, and social movements.

Schedule:

9:30-10:00 a.m.: Coffee and Welcome

10:00-11:15 a.m.: Taxes, Public Policy, and Inequality

Beverly Moran (Vanderbilt University): The Uneasy Case for a Capital Gains Tax

Vanessa Williamson (Harvard University): Systematic Misperceptions: How the Taxpaying Process Shapes Tax Knowledge

Maria Ivanova (University of London): Inequality Then and Now: Why This Time Is Different

11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m.: Health, Crime, and Housing

Dean Robinson (University of Massachusetts): No Urgency Without Insurgency: Racial Health Inequalities in the Post Civil Rights Era

Lisa Miller (Rutgers University): American State Failure: Race, Inequality and Murder

Laura Gottesdiener (author and journalist): We Shall Not Be Moved: Community-Led Resistance To Eviction In the Wake Of The 2008 Crisis

12:45-2:00 p.m.: Lunch Break

2:00-3:15 p.m.: Finance and Wealth across the Great Divide

Rebecca Barrett Fox (Arkansas State University): Saving Oursevles: Cynicism and Self-Help in Christian Money Management and Social Policy

Helaine Olen (author and journalist): How the Age of Inequality and the Personal Finance and Investment Industry Turned Us into a Nation of Financial Dreamers

Mike Konczal (Roosevelt Institute): Financialization and Inequality: The Story of the Past 35 Years

3:15-4:00 p.m.: Closing Reception

 

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Location Alexander Library 4th Floor Teleconference Room (CAC), 169 College Ave.
Contact Jeff Decker | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Louis Prisock | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Free and Open to the Public