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What is going on here and what can we do about it? >> well, for 30 years incomes have been growing more unequal and that's a reversal of what we experienced in the united states from 1934 to 1979. a long period when incomes were growing more equal or at least were remaining stable with respect to one another. that included the great depression and world war ii but it also included the fantastic post-war economy where we saw more prosp see today. that trend reversed itself after 1979, incomes started growing more unequal. and really, you've got two trends happening at the same time. one is a sk...

On lobbying is more meaningful than the money spent on elections because there you got a lot of bang for your buck when you spend money on actual lobbying. you've got people actually telling members of congress how they should write the laws. now, in the 1960s, what happened was, the history is in the 1960s, corporations were having a rough time in washington with the rise of the regulatory state, the rise of the consumer movement, and you had a few lobbyists here in washington, really just a handful of corporate lobbyists, and one of them, brice harlow, startedie advanta evangelizing around t...

That equality is morality, and i wouldn't necessarily dispute that in a kitchen table environment, but for me it's important to distinguish morality and equality because morality suggests it's at the discretion of the morals of the individual. for me equality suggests that we made a deal when we got off a boat a few hundred years ago, which was, we're going to make a place for the first time in the history of the world where everybody is treated equally as an experiment to joe costello's point. i did want to clarify that whole thing. the panel is going to stick. karen, i see you've got a thoug...

Ideological questions of policy and progress that characterize a campaign. snowplows and salt don't sound as sexy in a stump speech as justice and e equality. but for a city turning a new page on the government that serves the needs of its most vulnerable, they tear tools to take the earliest measures of mayor's ability to deliver on those high ideals. this was photo that became symbolic of mayor bloomberg's perception as an out of touch elitest when a storm poumded new york city 2010. much of the rest of the city remained blanketed in nearly two feet of snow. he paid a political price with hi...