Pay gap widens between rich and poor

The plight of the ordinary individual is related to the huge and growing gap between the rich, and everyone else. This article deals with that topic.  LINK

You may also have seen the very well-done documentary on that topic, Inequaltiy for All, featuring the U.C. Berkeley economist Robert Reich.  If you haven´t seen it, I highly recommend it.  First of all, it presents its argument with clarity and force.  Secondly, Robert Reich himself is very charismatic.

There have also been a number of Ted Talks on the topic.

This situation is considered so severe that in the European Union, the United States is considered an oligarchy rather than a democracy, because so few people control so much of the country´s wealth and, through that wealth, the political process.

We should really think hard about these things and use them as a wake-up call.

Independent filmmaker Eve A. Ma has recently completed a dramatic narrative film about the economic crisis in Spain.  Called Domino:  Caught in the Crisis (Dominó:  agarrado por la crisis), its official release will be presented by the city of Jerez de la Frontera, Spain on June 20, 2014.