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Matt Taibbi will be speaking with illustrator Molly Crabapple at PowerHouse Arena
Tuesday, April 08, 2014
Matt Taibbi
discusses the intersection of two of the most troubling trends in
American society—growing wealth inequality and mass incarceration. He
argues that our current system of justice allows massively destructive
fraud by the hyper-wealthy to go unpunished, while it turns poverty
itself into a crime. His new book on the topic is The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap.
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