Is Equality More Important Than Wealth?
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- Artist: Carl Etnier
- Title: Is Equality More Important Than Wealth?
- Album: Equal Time Radio
- Genre: Radio
- Year: 2010
- Length: 57:49 minutes (26.48 MB)
- Format: Mono
February 1, 2010
Kate Pickett is co-author of The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger, and the book asks, Which is more important for a strong society--high overall levels of wealth, or equal distribution of wealth? The authors argue that more equal countries and US states have greater longevity, fewer homicides, more trust, and other better outcomes, but average wealth doesn't matter much. Pickett is on for the entire show.
Ed Paquin, former six-term Vermont state representative and current executive director of Disability Rights Vermont (formerly Vermont Protection and Advocacy), joins during the second half of the show to put Pickett's findings in a Vermont perspective. Disability Rights Vermont is part of the One Vermont initiative, which is "committed to a state that works for all Vermonters – where everyone contributes to and enjoys the state’s prosperity."
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