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DTSTART:20180119T120000Z
DTEND:20180119T133000Z
SUMMARY:Toxic Inequality in the United States: Economic Equality and racial injustice driving ugly politics
UID:www.birmingham.ac.uk/140333
DESCRIPTION:"Toxic Inequality examines a powerful and unprecedented convergence in the United States: historic and rising levels of wealth and income inequality in an era of stalled mobility, intersecting with a widening racial wealth gap, all against the backdrop of changing racial and ethnic demographics."\n
Speaker
 Thomas M. Shapiro is the Pokross Professor of Law and Social Policy at the Heller School, Brandeis\n University, where he directs the Institute on Assets and Social Policy. The author of four books, including The\n Hidden Cost of Being African American and, with Melvin Oliver, Black Wealth/White Wealth. He lives in Jamaica\n Plain, Massachusetts.\n

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 View an interview with Professor Shapiro conducted on the day here:\n

LOCATION:G51 European Research Institute (ERI)
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