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How Inequality Is Hurting Whole Foods

2014-07-10 16:19:25| Grocery - Topix.net

After popularizing luxury groceries for the well-off, Whole Foods is trying to take the concept to the masses.

VIDEO: IMF warns of 'rising inequality'

2014-05-27 18:18:12| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Banking reforms aimed at preventing another financial crisis have failed to make enough progress, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned.

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VIDEO: Where is the inequality gap heading?

2014-05-01 15:20:42| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

French economist Thomas Piketty is causing a stir with his new book about the gap between rich and poor. Newsnight policy editor Chris Cook talks you through some of Piketty's analysis and his controversial policy suggestions.

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05.14: Divided: The Perils of Our Growing Inequality

2014-04-16 00:35:00| Powells Books Events Calendar

The issue of inequality has irrefutably returned to the fore, riding on the anger against Wall Street following the 2008 financial crisis and the concentration of economic and political power in the hands of the superrich. How bad is it? According to Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist David Cay Johnston, most Americans, in inflation-adjusted terms, are now back to the average income of 1966. Divided (New Press) collects the writings of leading scholars, activists, and journalists to provide an illuminating, multifaceted look at inequality in America.

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