A civil rights icon and experts in their fields weigh in.
Plus the UK’s Secretary of State and RNA is in the spotlight
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| | | December 9, 2021 | Presented in Partnership with Verizon
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| | CULTURE
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How Will We Create More Wealth for Everyone?
The global COVID-19 pandemic has worsened inequality. Oxfam International found that while billionaire fortunes returned to pre-pandemic highs in just nine months, a recovery for the world’s poorest people could take over a decade. In the United States, wealthier people have kept their jobs and decreased their expenses as they transitioned to working from home, while others have either gone to work on the frontlines or lost their jobs altogether. What’s causing this widening gap, and can it be reversed? Gillian White of The Atlantic interviews Beth Ann Bovino, chief US economist at S&P Global Ratings, Morningstar CEO Kunal Kapoor, and Children’s Defense Fund President Starsky Wilson about how to build wealth equity and create a more prosperous future for everyone.Listen
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Resetting for Equity and Inclusion
One positive thing about COVID-19 is that it has forced us to reckon with significant structural weaknesses across our economy that touch most Americans: Small businesses shutting down because access to capital is so fragmented. A financial system that doesn’t reach individuals, businesses, and communities where investment is in desperately short supply. A digital infrastructure so incomplete that large pockets of urban and rural areas have limited or no access to the internet. An unmet demand for caregiving at every level — so significant that women have left the workforce by the millions. How do we address these structural and underfunded challenges? We gathered some of the best and brightest minds tackling these very issues. Watch
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Advocating for Social Justice and Equality in Schools Across the Nation
In the South, big decisions were often made in one location: the front porch. In her new podcast, Rose Stuckey Kirk, Verizon's chief CSR officer, invites you to join her and leading changemakersfor powerful conversations on social justice, climate, communities, the economy, equality, and more. First up, civil rights icon Ruby Bridges. Ruby discusses the pivotal moment in 1960 that sparked the desegregation movement in New Orleans as the first child to walk up the steps of the all-white William Frantz Elementary School. Now, 61 years later, Rose invites Ruby to her porch. Hear how this historic moment shaped and fueled Ruby’s passionate activism and advocacy for education equality. Listen |
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