Features: January 2012 Archives

Left Behind, Parts 1 - 3

 

Over the past 30 years, the benefits of economic growth in Canada, the US and much of the rest of the world, have gone increasingly to the top one percent of the population. For the majority of families, however, incomes have stagnated. This rise in inequality coincided with a sea change in government policy. Beginning in the 1980s, governments in much of the English-speaking world embarked on what has been called the neoliberal revolution - deregulation, privatization and tax cuts, aimed at liberating markets and stimulating the economy. The rising tide was supposed to lift all boats, but it didn't. Jill Eisen explores what happened.

Photo: Occupy K Street demonstrators protest in the street of Washington, October 29, 2011. REUTERS/Jose Luis Magana

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Categories: Features, Past Episodes

 

• January 2012
  • Mon., 16 – Left Behind, Parts 1 - 3
     
• December 2011
  • Mon., 19 – George MacMartin's Big Canoe Trip
     
• November 2011
  • Mon., 21 – The Power of Colour
     
• May 2011
  • Fri., 20 – Homo (Sapiens) Neanderthalensis, Part 1 & 2
     
  • Mon., 16 – The Bones of the Earth
     
• April 2011
  • Mon., 18 – Chinese Laundry Kids
     
  • Mon., 11 – The Malaise of Modernity, Part 1 - 5
     
  • Tue., 5 – Speaking Flowers
     
• March 2011
  • Tue., 8 – Legends of The Ahtahkakoop
     
• February 2011
  • Mon., 14 – The Idea of Genius, Part 1 & 2
     
• January 2011
  • Fri., 7 – It's A Girl's World
     
• December 2010
  • Thu., 23 – A Bucket With Your Name On It
     
  • Mon., 13 – Dogs Themselves, Part 1 - 3
     
  • Thu., 2 – Original Strange Spare
     
• November 2010
  • Mon., 29 – Shanghai Ladies
     
• October 2010
  • Mon., 25 – Being Canadian, Part 1 & 2
     
  • Mon., 11 – Inventing Dinosaurs, Part 1 & 2 (Listen)
     
• September 2010
  • Wed., 29 – To Be Or Not To Be, Part 1 & 2
     
  • Wed., 15 – Ten Thousand Spirits (Listen)
     
  • Mon., 13 – Pasta: The Long and Short of It
     
• June 2010
  • Mon., 14 – Seeing Red, Part 1 & 2 (Listen)
     
  • Fri., 4 – Ocean Mind, Part 1 & 2 (Listen)
     
• May 2010
  • Mon., 17 – Have Your Meat and Eat It Too! Part 1 - 3
     
• April 2010
  • Mon., 26 – The Origins of the Modern Public, Parts 1-14 (Listen)
     
  • Thu., 8 – The Great Hunger, Part 1 & 2
     
  • Wed., 7 – It's A Teen's World: Wired for Sex, Lies and Power Trips, Part 1-3
     
• March 2010
  • Thu., 25 – Moral Clarity (Listen)
     
  • Mon., 22 – Wise Guys
     
  • Fri., 19 – Looking Up, Part 1 & 2 (Listen)
     
• February 2010
  • Thu., 25 – The Trail of Tears, Part 1 & 2 (Listen)
     
  • Fri., 19 – Message In A Bottle
     
  • Wed., 10 – The Tale of Genji (Listen)
     
  • Tue., 2 – Pleasures of the Flesh, Part 1 & 2 (Listen)
     
• January 2010
  • Wed., 27 – Living On Oxford Time (Listen)
     
  • Wed., 6 – You Are "Pre-Diseased", Part 1 & 2 (Listen)
     
• December 2009
  • Mon., 28 – In Praise of Ice, Parts 1 & 2 (Listen)
     
  • Mon., 21 – Visions of Fire, Part 1 & 2
     
  • Fri., 18 – Shadows on Sparks Street (Listen)
     
  • Tue., 8 – Stories of the Southesk Collection
     
  • Fri., 4 – The Hurried Infant, Part 1 & 2 (Listen)
     
• November 2009
  • Fri., 13 – The Brains of Babes, Part 1 - 3 (Listen)
     
  • Wed., 11 – The Evolution of Charles Darwin, Part 1 - 4 (Listen)
     
• October 2009
  • Thu., 22 – Lands of Crystal
     
• July 2009
  • Thu., 9 – Climate Wars, Part 1 - 3 (Listen)
     
• May 2009
  • Mon., 25 – Gilbert Reid's France, Parts 1 - 5 (Listen)
     
• January 2009
  • Fri., 2 – How To Think About Science, Part 1 - 24 (Listen)