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Making Toxic Wealth Inequality Through Policy

Making Toxic Wealth Inequality Through Policy. Thomas M. Shapiro Director, Institute on Assets and Social Policy Heller School for Social Policy Brandeis University.

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Making Toxic Wealth Inequality Through Policy

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  1. Making Toxic Wealth Inequality Through Policy • Thomas M. Shapiro • Director, Institute on Assets and Social Policy • Heller School for Social Policy • Brandeis University

  2. “History is not be made by Presidents or Popes, or Kings or Queens, or Generals or CIA Kingpins running dope, or nine men in robes, or billionaires or bankers, it's not made by them" ... It's in the hands of the People.” Tom Morello, The Nightwatchman

  3. “Let it be said in a whisper, experience is certainly worth more than theory” —Amerigo Vespucci

  4. Top Income Tax Bracket Percemt

  5. Estate Tax Top Bracket Percent

  6. Top Corporate Tax Rate Percent

  7. Financial Wealth Distribution, 2007

  8. $95,000 $20,000

  9. High-Income Whites Middle-Income Whites High-Income Black Americans Middle-Income Black Americans

  10. Is Poverty Just Lack of Income? Mobility? • Begs Question: How is Wealth Accumulated? • Security and Opportunity • Historical Dimension Of Making Inequality • Impact of State Policy • Enduring Structures Reproducing Inequality • Fixing Policies that Created Wealth Gap

  11. Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment Would you capture it, or just let it slip? Yo

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