The gran ghetto near italys Southern City of foggia is home to some 1500 people during harvest time. Although home is hardly the right word. The migrant labourers from africa live here in appalling conditions. They earn up to a maximum of 20 euros a day. Not enough to afford a proper place to live. Three of us sleep here. This is the kitchen where we make food. We have rice. And oil, thats it. Recently the water supply was cut off here. But the migrants stayed anyway. Partly because they arent the only ones who depend on their meagre wages. If i dont work here, whos going to feed my children in africa . Sometimes i send 200 euros home, sometimes 150. If i earn two hundred, i keep hundred and send a hundred back home. In many of southern italys plantations, its day labourers from africa who do much of the work. They come here in their thousands. Modernday slaves, exploited by unscrupulous farmers. In the town of nardo in apulia, a Police Video Shows the ramshackle accommodation given to
Welcome. We continue our conversation with one of the worlds most influential economists sited by his colleagues in the field. Hes a nobel laureate, and hes mad as hell, infuriated by americas growing inequality as those at the top buy the politicians who write the rules that rig the system. Hes especially angry at how the tax code has been manipulated and abused to place the burden on the earners of ordinary income, instead of on the rich and powerful most able to pay. But Joseph Stiglitz says there are solutions. Heres what he told us in our last episode we have a tax system that reflects not the interest of the middle. We have a tax system that reflects the interest of the one percent. And i want to do is create a tax system that has incentives to create jobs. And if you tell a corporation, look it, if you dont create jobs, youre taking out of our system, youre not putting back, youre going to pay a high tax. But if you put back into our system by investing, then you can get your ta
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