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Does Inequality Actually Help Anyone?

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Report after report on the economy and incomes shows a widening between rich and poor in the United States. 

There are always people who insist that SOME inequality is a good thing, a potential motivator for people with lower incomes to work hard enough to get higher incomes. 

One of the offerings from the Conversation Project of Oregon Humanities is a session called "How Much Inequality Is Acceptable?"

Writer/storyteller/professor Julia Hammond from Portland is the session leader. 

Before she brings the conversation to Medford and Grants Pass (Thursday, Jan. 28), she converses with us.  

 

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Geoffrey Riley is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and has hosted the Jefferson Exchange on JPR since 2009. He's been a broadcaster in the Rogue Valley for more than 35 years, working in both television and radio.