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And on the other end of the spectrum, financial fraud by the rich has wiped out 40 percent of the world’s wealth. A special evening with one of America’s premiere journalists as ProPublica President and Founding General Manager Richard Tofel interviews bestselling author Matt Taibbi on his groundbreaking new book, The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap.ĭuring tonight’s talk, Matt Taibbi will discuss the inequity of American crime and punishment, exploring the reasons why, as he shows in The Divide, America has, over the last two decades, been falling deeper and deeper into a statistical mystery: Poverty has gone up crime has gone down and yet the prison population has doubled. |