The wealth gap in the United States is growing 鈥� and it has negative consequences beyond the economy. shows the American middle class continues to lose financial ground to the upper class.
Three schools within the University of North Carolina 鈥� UNC鈥檚 School of Law, the Gillings School of Global Public Health and the Kenan-Flagler Business School 鈥� have teamed up for a lecture series aimed at tackling this critical issue. The second lecture features an economic expert and a public health expert.
blames some of this growing inequality on economic globalization. He is a professor of strategy and entrepreneurship and the director of the . He talks to host Frank Stasio about how the changing economy contributes to the wealth gap.
Stasio also talks to public health expert , the co-founder and a board member of , a charity that works to improve the lives of people in the United Kingdom. Wilkinson is also a professor emeritus of social epidemiology at the . He shares some of the policy decisions in the 1980s that helped to drive growing inequality and the consequences of a society with a large wealth gap. Johnson and Wilkinson talk about solutions that would create shared prosperity and have a real effect in closing the wealth gap.
