<head><style>body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;}</style></head><body><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><font face="arial,sans-serif"><br></font></font></font><style>body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;}</style><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><font face="arial,sans-serif"><br></font></font></font><style>body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;}</style><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><font face="arial,sans-serif">Cambridge Forum<br>3 Church Street ● Cambridge, MA 02138<br>617-495-2727<br>email: director@cambridgeforum.org<br>cambridgeforum.org<br><br>Release April 23, 2012<br><br>Cambridge Forum: Chuck Collins and Linda McQuaig Discuss Wealth Inequality in America on 4/25/2012 <br><br>On Wednesday April 25, 2012 Cambridge Forum hosts authors Chuck Collins and Linda McQuaig discussing “Wealth Inequality: The Gilded Road to Ruin?” The forum takes place at 7:00 pm at the First Parish in Cambridge, 3 Church Street in Harvard Square.<br><br>The rich are getting richer. The richest 1 percent of Americans now owns more than 36 percent of all the wealth in the United States. That's more than the net worth of the bottom 95 percent combined. In 2010, the 1 percent earned 21 percent of all income, up from only 8 percent in mid-1970s.<br><br>How has this concentration of wealth come about? What does it mean for the health of American democracy? And for the well-being of the vast majority of Americans? How could we reverse the trend of increasing economic inequality? What would it take politically to begin that process? How can an individual nation create economic conditions that overcome the impetus toward the global race to the bottom? <br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Chuck Collins</span> is a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies and directs the Institute's Program on Inequality and the Common Good and co-edits the web portal inequality.org, a<br>leading outlet for research and commentary on inequality issues. He is co-founder of Wealth for the Common Good, a network of business leaders, high-income households and other partners working together to promote shared prosperity and fair taxation, as well as co-founder of United for a Fair Economy. His most recent book is 99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality Is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do About It. <br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Linda McQuaig</span> is a journalist who has been described as “Canada’s Michael Moore,” for her reputation for taking on the establishment. She has written seven Canadian best sellers. She also has been a national reporter for the Globe and Mail in Toronto, a senior writer for Maclean's magazine, and a political columnist for the Toronto Star. She won a National Newspaper Award in 1989 for breaking the story of a lobbyist who misused charitable donations for political purposes – and eventually went to prison. Her most recent book, which she co-wrote with Neil Brooks is called Billionaire’s Ball: Gluttony and Hubris in an Age of Epic Inequality.<br><br>Cambridge Forum is recorded and edited for public radio broadcast. Edited CDs are available to the public by contacting 617-495-2727. Select forums can be viewed in their entirety on demand by visiting our website at cambridgeforum.org and clicking on the Forum Network at WGBH.<br></font></font></font></body><pre>
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