{"id":48717,"date":"2015-12-02T07:30:01","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T14:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=48717"},"modified":"2015-12-02T08:28:54","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T15:28:54","slug":"billionaire-bonanza-the-forbes-400-and-the-rest-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2015\/12\/02\/billionaire-bonanza-the-forbes-400-and-the-rest-of-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Billionaire Bonanza: The Forbes 400 and the Rest of Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2015\/09\/16\/kpfk-gm-leslie-radford-has-cut-uprisings-hours\/\" target=\"_blank\">BANNED BROADCAST<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ia801505.us.archive.org\/29\/items\/uprising_2015_12_02\/Chuck_Collins_2015_12_02.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ia801505.us.archive.org\/29\/items\/uprising_2015_12_02\/uprising_2015_12_02.mp3\">Listen to the full show <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p><em>GUEST: <strong>Chuck Collins<\/strong> is a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies and directs the Institute\u2019s Program on Inequality and the Common Good. An expert on U.S. inequality, Collins has authored several books, including &#8217;99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do About It&#8217;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Each year, in September, Forbes Magazine releases its list of the 400 wealthiest people in the US. The magazine describes it as &#8220;the definitive list of wealth in America, profiling and ranking the country&#8217;s richest billionaires by their estimated net worths.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>While the list is an unabashed celebration of the excesses of capitalism, meant to provide fodder for aspiration, it is also a useful tool for researchers to showcase the obscene wealth inequality that continues to plague the US. <\/p>\n<p>To read the report, visit <em><a href=\"http:\/\/inequality.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.Inequality.org<\/a><\/em>\u00a0or <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ips-dc.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.ips-dc.org<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BANNED BROADCAST GUEST: Chuck Collins is a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies and directs the Institute\u2019s Program on Inequality and the Common Good. An expert on U.S. inequality, Collins has authored several books, including &#8217;99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do About It&#8217;. Each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48723,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48717\/revisions\/48723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}