Income Inequality

I encourage all of you to go to the link listed below. It is a story NPR is doing on income inequality and how the gap between the richest and poorest in our country has continued to widen in the last 30 years (particularly in the last 5):

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7180618

As a former economics major, and as someone who took a class on income inequality, I may have a unique concern for this issue. BUT, you should to if you ever find yourself asking:

1. Is it appropriate for CEO’s to make 300 times more than the average American worker?
2. How does a society, which claims to be Christian, acknowledge the vast differences in income in light of the Sermon on the Mount and Luke, chapter 6?
3. What role do I play in creating an economy where money is increasingly disassociated from local communities and associated with corporations, mega-industries and the global market?
4. Do other people realize that our society has begun to serve the economy rather than the economy serving our society?

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