[Wamvan] CBC Radio 'Left Behind'

[Natalie Hill]

Thanks for sharing, Lindsay.

I just caught the first episode as it aired tonight.  Very interesting.

I think it's great to criticize the media for its poor coverage of social
justice issues, but also to circulate things when they are really good!
Ideas has always been a great CBC radio program that explores issues
calmly, intelligently, and in very in-depth ways.  I'm sure this issue will
be treated well in this format (as opposed to listening to a panel of
pundits argue with each other on a political current affairs show).

Anyway, thanks!

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Lindsay Miles <lindskmiles at gmail.com>wrote:

> FYI CBC series on growing inequality - see link below for part 1 - part 2
> airs Monday January 23rd
>
> http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/episodes/2012/01/16/left-behind/
>
> "Over the past 30 years, the benefits of economic growth in Canada, the US
> and much of the rest of the world, have gone increasingly to the top one
> percent of the population. For the majority of families, however, incomes
> have stagnated. This rise in inequality coincided with a sea change in
> government policy. Beginning in the 1980s, governments in much of the
> English-speaking world embarked on what has been called the neoliberal
> revolution - deregulation, privatization and tax cuts, aimed at liberating
> markets and stimulating the economy. The rising tide was supposed to lift
> all boats, but it didn't. *Jill Eisen* explores what happened."
>
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