At The Citizen’s inaugural Ideas We Should Steal Festival, Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes and author Anand Giridharadas electrified the audience with a rousing dissection of our failure to achieve income equality in America. Instead, they noted a system that allows for the very people who broke political and economic systems to peddle fake reforms and changes.
“50 percent of Americans don’t have $500 for an emergency,” said Hughes, who made $450 million in just three years—and acknowledges there’s something wrong with that.
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If you missed the discussion, or simply want to hear it again, listen on CitizenCast below.
Or, watch Giridharadas and Hughes talk with MSNBC host Ali Velshi below.
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Idea We Should Steal: A $500/month universal income for low-income Americans, as proposed by Hughes.
Read more about Hughes and Giridharadas in The Citizen:
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