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Our Fair Share
Join us as Brian C. Johnson, author of Our Fair Share, stops in to discuss solutions around moving towards and more economically just country.
Our wealth gap in America between the richest and poorest families more than doubled from 1989 to 2016, which isn't surprising when you learn that the highest earning 20% of US households have continuously brought in a larger share of the countries TOTAL income over the past 50 years.
"We are living in a period of economic inequality that we haven't seen in a century. This isn't our parents level of inequality, it's not our grandparents level of inequality, this is almost unprecedented inequality if we look back over the past 100 years." -Brian C. Johnson
The Black to white income gap isn't new news either, the difference in median houeshold income between these groups has grown from $23,819 in 1970 to roughly $33,000 in 2018.
And in 2019, Fortune 500 CEO's who earned approximately $14.8 million on average, included just 5 Black and 17 Latinx people - less than 5% of the total.
The rich just keep getting richer here in America.
A simple solution is "The Citizen's Dividend", the belief that every business should take a share of their yearly profits and pay it out to Americans, so that everyone gets a check. Now wouldn't that be amazing.
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Join us as Brian C. Johnson, author of Our Fair Share, stops in to discuss solutions around moving towards and more economically just country.
Our wealth gap in America between the richest and poorest families more than doubled from 1989 to 2016, which isn't surprising when you learn that the highest earning 20% of US households have continuously brought in a larger share of the countries TOTAL income over the past 50 years.
"We are living in a period of economic inequality that we haven't seen in a century. This isn't our parents level of inequality, it's not our grandparents level of inequality, this is almost unprecedented inequality if we look back over the past 100 years." -Brian C. Johnson
The Black to white income gap isn't new news either, the difference in median houeshold income between these groups has grown from $23,819 in 1970 to roughly $33,000 in 2018.
And in 2019, Fortune 500 CEO's who earned approximately $14.8 million on average, included just 5 Black and 17 Latinx people - less than 5% of the total.
The rich just keep getting richer here in America.
A simple solution is "The Citizen's Dividend", the belief that every business should take a share of their yearly profits and pay it out to Americans, so that everyone gets a check. Now wouldn't that be amazing.