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Tag Archives: income inequality
America, Wake Up!
In the last section of the final chapter of his June 1967 book, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, Martin Luther King, Jr., focuses on the evils of racism, economic exploitation, and militarism. Analyzing and assessing the … Continue reading
Posted in Poverty, Social Ethics, War & Peace
Tagged beloved community, capitalism, Civil Rights Movement, Demagoguery, Democratic Socialism, Discrimination, Distributive Justice, human-rights, income inequality, Macbeth, Martin Luther King Jr., nonviolence, Poverty, Racism, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Revolution, Rip Van Winkle, Values, Washington Irving, White Privilege, William Shakespeare
INCOME INEQUALITY: OBAMA V. FRANCIS
I have always admired and respected Catholic social teaching, especially with regards to helping the so-called least of these. Concern for the needy and the disinherited in the United States and in the world has been a continuous focus of … Continue reading
Posted in Poverty
Tagged Capitalism v. Socialism, Defining moment of our time, income inequality, Minimum wage, Pope Francis
POVERTY AT HOME & ABROAD
In 1958, John Kenneth Galbraith detailed income inequality and an imbalanced economic system in his book, The Affluent Society. People who did not actually read the text considered it a homage to what makes America great. Contrariwise, Galbraith demonstrates that … Continue reading
Posted in Poverty
Tagged capitalism, income inequality, Poverty, wealth gap
