{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=EAD78EB1-A792-499B-908C-8112087578C7", "The Washington Post: From ?Inequality for All,? a challenge for America", "2013-09-10", "2013", "2013-09", "Independent", "House", "VT", "Bernard Sanders", "S000033", "sanders.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "From \u2018Inequality for All,\u2019 a challenge for America\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t By:\u00a0 Katrina vanden Heuvel \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\tTuesday, September 10, 2013\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\u201cChilling.\u201d\r\nThat\u2019s how one reviewer\u00a0describes\u00a0the experience of watching Harvey Weinstein\u2019s latest film. Only the movie in question isn\u2019t \u201cErased,\u201d Weinstein\u2019s pulse-pounding thriller about an ex-CIA agent on the run. Nor is it \u201cOnly God Forgives,\u201d in which Ryan Gosling finds himself caught up in a gritty underground world of Thai drug smuggling, prostitution, rape, and murder.\r\nThe movie is, in fact, a documentary, but one more disturbing than international criminal conspiracies and more devastating than any \u201cSharknado.\u201d It\u2019s about income inequality. As Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich intones in the film, \u201cOf all developed nations, the United States has the most unequal distribution of income, and we\u2019re surging towards even greater inequality.\u201d\r\n\u201cInequality for All,\u201d directed by Jacob Kornbluth and set to be released nationwide on Sept. 27, comes at a critical moment for America. Sept. 15 marks the five-year anniversary of\u00a0the collapse of Lehman Brothers\u00a0\u2014 fueled by a toxic combination of deregulation, subprime lending and credit-default swaps \u2014 that precipitated the 2008 global economic crisis and laid bare the rot at the heart of our economic system. It was largely this orgy of greed that led the first Occupy Wall Street protesters to Zuccotti Park on Sept. 17, two years ago next week.\r\nIn the half-decade since Wall Street\u2019s self-induced crash, the country has hovered between outrage (that the perpetrators walked off scot-free and bonus-laden) and apathy (that anything will ever break the iron bond between Congress and the financial industry).\r\nUntil now, hopefully. Following the diminutive Reich on his \u201cstatistics-driven and impassioned\u201d\u00a0crusade, \u201cInequality for All\u201d throws into sharp relief the numbers and stories we hear. Combining footage from Reich\u2019s electrifying Berkeley lectures with interviews, news clips and rich graphics, the film weaves a compelling narrative about how and why, since the late 1970s, income inequality has risen to crisis levels.\r\nThe facts are breathtaking. In 1978, according to Reich, a \u201ctypical male worker\u201d made $48,302, while the typical top 1 percenter earned $393,682, more than eight times as much. In 2010, even as overall gross domestic product and productivity increased, the average male worker\u2019s wage fell to $33,751. Meanwhile, the average top 1 percent earner was making more than $1.1 million \u2014 32 times the average earner.\r\nContinue reading here.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=EAD78EB1-A792-499B-908C-8112087578C7"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7547168061137199, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}