birth rates all those kinds of problems seem to be much worse in more unequal countries not just a little bit worse but only thing from traces common to ten times as calm in countries like britain and the united states compared to more equal countries like some of the scandinavian countries or. is there a direct line of causality can you say that the inequality caused the social problems or could it be that countries with a lot of social problems for other reasons demographic reasons or historic reasons or recent wars or whatever then end up as very unequal countries. we are number of cases we know the causal ordering. and people have done a lot more research than we cover in our book but we also know some of the processes involved for instance why violence becomes more common in more unequal societies is not because the course starts attacking rich but because we all judge each other more by status. things like disrespect are the most common triggers to violence loss of face humiliation and people become more sensitive about when status becomes more important but in other cases i mean th

in response shouldn't have been demonstrating for weeks no so the current systems underfunded and unequal president pinera has promised an extra financing but the protesters say that's not enough. it's one twenty one am moscow time next as more civilians reportedly die nato air strikes in libya serious questions are being asked over the legalities of the alliance's intervention so artie's big stew the former editor of the british newspaper the sun next who says that libya was a good p.r. stunt for the british government shows more of his insights to right here.

becomes more important but in other cases i mean the reasons why death rates are higher and more unequal countries there seems to be partly that social relations become more stressed or you know community life weakens people trust each other less and as i say we've become more. if you like into status competition more status insecurity so lot of the causal process is a mode. to walk. to what extent is the portrayal of inequality on television. you'd have to tell me how this has played out in the u.k. but in the united states around the time reagan came to the office prior to that the average family shown on american television was literally a middle class family the old shows you know lucille ball they lived in a you know in a cheap apartment in new york you know the etc and then after the eighty's we started seeing multimillion dollar homes and in shows like dynasty and dallas and that kind of thing and it kind of continues that way does that provoke a feeling among middle class working class people of of that was of status in that area i'm sure television adds to it but i don't think i

like, everything was separate and unequal. the school was inadequate. we could not go to the hospitals. they built a house adjacent to the main hospital. the white people were not supposed to be in the same room with an n-person. you know the n-word? i said to myself at the end of the day that i love my country and i'm glad that that day, i took a stand. i saw through the supreme court that the flaws that america had tried to correct them by removing those horrible signs -- "white" and "colored." i said when i testified at the trial, i went through how we were treated, and the lady dramatize it, so i do not have to go through that, but it is the whole system of separate but unequal. it is understates rights -- is under states' rights. after lincoln had freed us from slavery, they instituted this law, separate but equal, and the state had sanctioned it. but everything there was, even when they had things that were federal, they would put a rope up, and the white people would be on one side, and the black people on the other side. i prayed. i'm a baptist.

state against the others and studied wealth inequality guess what they found is that the more unequal a nation or even a state is the bigger the gap between the rich and the poor than the worst it's social ills like teenage pregnancy or drug abuse or violence. it's. in nearly every single instance the higher the wealth inequality the bigger the problems and where does the u.s. rank well here sort of pick it up to japan sweden finland norway germany spain france the netherlands italy australia denmark belgium switzerland austria greece canada ireland israel the u.k. you zealand and portugal comparing all those countries what they found. is that the u.s. is by far and away the most unequal we have the biggest gap between the rich and the poor of all these other nations and because of that we lead the way in problems take infant mortality we are the very very worst when it comes to how many failed births there are every year far more than any nation in the world down here you have jet this is low japan sweden norway spain germany france has income inequality goes up. portugal usa here we

we're now more unequal nation than the ivory coast pakistan ethiopia and kazakhstan according to the cia. so when the entire middle class american medical asked this appears thank you we all accept that or break ins vision for america and the direction that the current republican party has this nation headed and then to lead us towards ruin recently com weighed in on the growing wealth imbalance in america and how it's the greatest threat to american democracy take a lap. as your member of congress supported teenage pregnancies drug abuse and violence. last week canadian members of parliament brought up an important issue in the house of commons wealth inequality motion was agreed upon across party lines did read this house notes the findings that societies with smaller income differences between rich and poor have fewer health and social problems such as teenage births violence mental illness and drug abuse through notes such societies have higher levels of trust between citizens and more social mobility and therefore encourages the government to promote policies that reduce income

looks unequal to a haitian? economist richard freeman is not surprised. >> we're high for a poor country, in terms of inequality, and we're a rich country. we're about the same level of inequality as china and, of course, china, half the population are rural peasants who are not part of the modern world. and if we were to compare us with african countries, dictators in different places, you know, taking a lot of the wealth from normal people, we would be among the top half of the african countries of inequality. so the u.s. really has reached an extraordinary level of income inequality. >> reporter: the luxury goods speak for themselves. but who knew that the kids of the wealthy were flying private jets to camp this summer? okay, to some, this might be cause for indignation. but to others, it's not that simple. >> inequality is the flip side of providing powerful incentives for people who generate a lot of income. >> reporter: economist steven davis. >> part of the success of the united states economy lies in th

they go to schools that are separate and unequal. parents everywhere will put up with a lot if they think that their kids will have it better. that is a reality not lost on the chinese government. now, in certain areas, mineworkers' kids are getting a break. -- migrant workers' kids are getting a break. with my friend and colleague dr. cornell west, i spent some time at this school just outside shanghai where some 50,000 kids of migrant workers are at the vanguard of change. >> a dance studio. tavis: our diet lives part-time in shanghai. she is also a governor of the committee of 100, a nonprofit is asian of americans to work to promote understanding between our two countries. -- a nonprofit group of chinese americans who work to promote understanding. she is actively involved in education through the arts in china. how long have you been in the school? >> about two years. tavis: are you enjoying it? is this a typical school in china? >> yes. this goes from middle school to high school. tavis: this is the whole class? >> the whole cl

other people have unequal access to you. they have it -- they can get 10 or 15 minutes of your time. for the people in this city that are not that powerful or rich and they want two minutes and you watch people get out of their chairs and they go out to take a leak, showing the disregard, disrespect, disinterest, whenever you want to call it for what the citizens have to say to you. you are denying people access to their representative in city government. i made two calls to my supervisor. in each attempt i said, could i get five minutes stocks could i get five minutes to talk about something? you get an aide that says no. they do not care what you want to talk about. the answer is no. between now and november, every citizen out there in sfgtv land should come out and observe public comment and see the respect it would give to you if you were here. >> good afternoon. i am peter, director of a users association. the library two weeks ago became the first and so far only department that was found by the ethics commission to ha

the weight was distributed unequally, which could damage the lawn. for some reason, the vip's seem to be the only group that does not understand you cannot park on tree roots. the chain of lakes were closed to parking. it looks great. perhaps it's time to start thinking about across-the-park tunnels, as was proposed a few years ago. >> here, here. >> i want to know that the general manager said here, here to the tunnel proposal. some pathways were locked for days even after the concert was done. the complaints that i heard about the sound thing -- some of the gates could have been opened and they were not. it was difficult to get near the polo field at all. we did manage to go around 1 centfence. there was a lot of equipment that was too close. there's so much fencing for this event. we could arrange that so the security areas are fenced first and the rest last, that would be great. bikes were still chained to trees and this was right next to the bike parking area. maybe we could get a person in charge of that. the cyprus at the speedway metal has be

unequal society which. durations of rich and poor which have affected things no doubt so there's lots and lots of little things that need to happen really worry that this current government doesn't have a grasp of all sorts of nuts and bolts things you know they need to look at how the police are behaving they need to improve certain things with an underclass in school they need to look at parenting moves we never personally in this country be not well governed we again have this adversarial system. that well. you constantly have these chopping and changing of policy there's nothing seen through in any kind of long term basis there's no consensus about education health whatever it seems of the government's wanting to come down very tough on the court granting handing out strict punishments and things. do you think will do more harm than good. we know. i mean again it's back to a kind of holding the scandinavian model of rehabilitation in finland in sweden in norway is the only serious way that you actually

working class it came to trade in a very negative way particularly as we became all equal and in a more unequal society people justify that inequality by saying rightfully the people at the bottom of that as they deserve to be there the lazy violent. stupid and that is a justification for inequality and that's not to say they want social problems in this country like violence and crime or whatever but the real info. people marks of work in some of the communities were things that affected by the top of the thirty four employed people facing chasing every drop so i think problems what we saw last week another a whole range of other social problems i think all employment and poverty provide for a tile ground from the growth so it's not to justify it is just to try and explain why these things happen in order to stop it from happening again so using politicians have been quick to blame all of this on secret lives in saying this is a broken society do you think that's just a way of covering up the ills of a society they've created absolutely i mean basically what they're trying to do is turn a soci

unequal society which brought the nutritionals of rich and cool which are which have affected things about so there's lots and lots of little things that need to happen and i would really worry that this current government doesn't travel gospel you know sorts of nuts and bolts things you know they need to look at how the police are behaving they need to improve perhaps certain things with an underclass in school they need to look at parenting knows we never personally in this country be not well governed and we again have this adversarial system that has actually served us that well and you constantly have these chopping and changing of policy there's nothing seen through in any kind of long term basis there's no consensus about education health whatever you know it seems that the government's going to come down very tough on those who caught him handing out street punishments and things was sort of thing do you think will do more harm and it won't work with me know why. i mean again it's back to kind of holding the scan maybe a model we had built station in finland in sweden in norw

this creates an unlevel playing field and additional costs for non-bank lenders and creates unequal protection for consumers. in addition, licensed originators can move freely to depository lenders from licensed originators, but the reverse is not true. a lender -- a loan originator working for a bank has to go through the entire licensing process in order to be able to be employed by a small business lender. we ask that the cfpb under take rule making as soon as possible to create a transitional license to allow registered loan originators to move to non-bank lenders for a limited time while they complete their requirements. it's important for the cfpb to address the compensation rule under the truth and lending act and go over the rigid requirements imposed by the fed on the ability of the small business to pay its employees with the loan products they produce. confusing standards and lack of guidance from the fed created unusual outcomes. for example, the current rules impacts bond programs that serve low to moderate income and rural borrowers. they limit fees and can be charged to the borr

response students who have been demonstrating for weeks say the current system is underfunded and unequal president sebastian pinera has promised extra financing but protests to say this is not enough. overnight fire fights between nato troops and are going to police have led four officers dead and four others injured just outside kandahar city the local police chief says the victims were members of an anti taliban initiative he said the men were reportedly with taken for insurgents the incident follows last month's move by a native to begin hundred handing over control to local authorities and cos i've got stuck. up to date up next as more civilians reportedly die in nato air strikes in libya serious questions are being asked over the legality of the alliance's intervention and he spoke to the former editor of the british newspaper the sun who says that leave it was a good p.r. stunt for the british government as he shares his insights into the conflict. today i'm talking to kelvin mackenzie former editor of the song newspaper columnist he's spoken out against the military intervention i

like india taiwan korea there i mean what's going on now in these societies where you have such an unequal or an imbalance between the male population and the female population. why wasn't i cleared churches actually but you had also at the same time a lot of money in the seventy's and sixty's going into strategies like. birth and. abortion in some kind of sometimes unfortunate we've seen really and not offering it to women is an option but in some cases forcing them or strongly encouraging news is and so then by the time ultrasound in got to the point where it could determine the sex the baby is in then the second trimester in the early one nine hundred eighty s. we were is really pent up demand for this technology and there was at the same time very high fortunately in asia in part because of western involvement really you added those two things together and what you got. explosive rates sex selection beginning the eighteenth in the early eighty's in south korea in taiwan and china in the. car and in my own country as well as meaning. and so now today we are a total of one hundred sixty

unequal society which brought on the provisions of rich and poor richard which have affected things and i found so there's lots and lots of little things that need to happen you know i would really worry that this current government doesn't. know sorts of nuts and bolts things you know they need to look at how the police are behaving they need to improve perhaps certain things with an underclass in school they need to look at parenting knows we never personally in this country be not well governed three again have this adversarial system that hasn't actually served us that well. constantly have these truckling changing a policy there's nothing seen through in any kind of long term basis there's no consensus about education health whatever and seems that the government's going to come down very tough on the court riots in handing out strip punishments and things all sort of do you think will do more harm than good. for me no it won't work i mean again it's back to a kind of holding the scandinavian model of rehabilitation in finland in sweden in norway is the only serious way that you ac

in response students who were demonstrating for weeks said the current system is underfunded and unequal president sebastian pinera is promised extra financing but protesters say that's not enough. of a no firefights between nato troops and afghan police have left four officers dead and four others injured just outside kandahar city the local police chief says the victims were members of an anti taliban initiative now he said the men were reportedly mistaken for insurgents the incident follows last month's move by nato to begin handing over control to local authorities across afghanistan. the sexual abuse. involving a seven year old girl has shaken one small russian town in the country's far east outrage was triggered after judges allowed the suspected paedophile to walk away free r.t. to push her over reports next then on how mothers and activists are taking matters into their own hands as hundreds of child abusers escape justice every year. and mother in grief. and you know. i even thought of buying a pistol and shooting him myself i simply don't know how else to protect my family live

accomplish is to get the republicans finally to understand that when our country today as the most unequal distribution of income and wealth of any major country and that gap between the very rich and everybody else is growing wider that those fox on top will have to contribute to deficit reduction. i hope they stay strong on that. >> in one of the papers this week, they labeled max baucus a centrist. would you call him a centrist? what does that mean to you in these negotiations? guest: if you're asking me what i have appointed -- would i haven't with three different people, i would have. max baucus is chairman of the finance committee and he is a smart guy. for the right reasons, he was on the simpson balls commission. he voted against it which is the right to vote. i think is wrong to think these guys will be living in a world of their own. patty murray is the chair of the senate democrats. she is part of leadership. i think you will see a lot of discussion taking place between the caucus and those three people. >> we had the bulls-simpson report. -- we had the bowles-simpson proposal a

in response shouldn't have been demonstrating for weeks no so the current systems underfunded and unequal president pinera has promised an extra financing but the protesters say that's not enough. it's one twenty one am moscow time next as more civilians reportedly die nato air strikes in libya serious questions are being asked over the legalities of the alliance's intervention so artie's big stew the former editor of the british newspaper the sun next who says that libya was a good p.r. stunt for the british government shows more of his insights to right here. today i'm talking to kelvin mackenzie former editor of the sun newspaper columnist he's spoken out against the military intervention in libya saying that libya is not worth an ounce of british blood killed mackenzie that's a very strong position to take i mean the government reckons the airstrikes prevented a massacre in benghazi so he that's worth a few british bombs and tsotsi well first of all we don't know whether there was going to be a massacre of big goals this was the p.r. of this was the government's push this world's came