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The reluctant millionaires

The Documentary Podcast

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Inequality Is Bad for Our Democracy

In different times in our history, the gap between what CEOs were paid and the average worker was 25 to 50 times. Now it's well over 300. And that has everything to do with public policy decisions which allow for gains of all of our collective productivity to be siphoned away by a handful of people. Three men today in the U.S. own as much as the bottom 50 percent of the walk distribution.

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