by Sylvia Moore | Apr 23, 2014 | News
CAPITAL in the Twenty-First Century By Thomas Piketty Harvard University Press The overall conclusion of this study is that a market economy based on private property, if left to itself, contains powerful forces of convergence, associated in particular with the...
by Sylvia Moore | Oct 23, 2013 | News, Video
Inequality for All By Don McCanne, qotd editor Quote of the Day Editorial, October 11, 2013 Yesterday, my wife Sandy and I had the pleasure of joining a group from our local chapter of the League of Women Voters in viewing the new documentary, Inequality for All,...
by Sylvia Moore | Sep 19, 2012 | News
Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2011 By Carmen DeNavas-Walt, Bernadette D. Proctor, Jessica C. Smith United States Census Bureau, September 2012 Health Insurance Coverage – 2011 48.6 million or 15.7% – people without...
by Andrew McGuire | May 9, 2011 | News
Zocolo Public Square is holding a free public forum, “How Do We Solve Health Inequality?” this Thursday, May 12, at 7:30PM at the California Endowment, 1000 N. Alameda St., Los Angeles: A Zócalo/UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs/W.K. Kellogg Foundation...
by Andrew McGuire | Feb 1, 2011 | News
Why Don’t Americans Live Longer? By David Leonhardt The New York Times January 25, 2011 The National Academy of Sciences has just released a fascinating report on life expectancy in rich countries around the world. The researchers who wrote the report — public-health...