Fair Share Podcast Episode 1: Turning the Tide on Skyrocketing Wealth Inequality

This is the first episode of my project with veteran journalist Sree Sreenivasan--the Fair Share Podcast. It's all about the American tax system and how it protects extreme wealth, fuels inequality, and is destroying our democracy. Most importantly, it's about what we can do to fix it.

Here's the full episode:

The top 1% own one-third of all the wealth in the country—a share equal to the total held by the bottom 90%. Expand that to the top 10%, and it’s a full two-thirds of the total wealth of the richest country the world has ever seen. The differences among these tiers is vast, as is the wealth that comes with it. Here are my six tiers:

The good news is that this can still be fixed, and we the people have the power to do it. That’s what Fair Share is all about. Tax policy can and should be a tool for economic justice rather than a shield for concentrated wealth, and we will lay out how to do it over the coming months with some fabulous guest experts, history, some civics, and a dose of nerdiness.

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