Wealth & Poverty w/ Robert Reich: Widening Inequality

Name: Wealth & Poverty w/ Robert Reich: Widening Inequality
Start: 2025-09-04T13:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-09-04T15:00:00-05:00
Location: Sparta Free Library

Schedule

Thu Sep 04 2025 at 01:00 pm to 03:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Sparta Free Library | Sparta, WI

Join the library to explore why inequalities of income and wealth have widened significantly over time. This class is taught by Robert Reich--whose UC Berkeley college course on Wealth and Poverty offers insights into the political and public-policy debates that have arisen in light of this inequality, as well as possible means of reversing it. This community gathering is a collaboration between the Sparta Free Library and the Blue Stockings Book Club. Together, we will view course videos and hold brief discussions immediately following.
This first class focuses on these questions: Is some inequality both inevitable and necessary? At what point, if ever, does it become a problem? What's the difference between income and wealth inequality, and which is more important? How do income and wealth inequalities overlap with race and gender? And the real puzzle: why did these inequalities begin to widen so dramatically starting in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and continue widening since then?