Carol Woehrer´s Profile
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| Username: | Carol Woehrer |
| Age: | 88 |
| Gender: | Male |
| Real Name: | Carol Woehrer |
| Location: | Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Tag Headline: | democratic economics capitalism |
I'm looking to the future by organizing political meetings for the DFL.
What is motivating me is the record gap between the wealthy and the poor in American society. The U.S. has the second highest rate of childhood poverty among developed and developing countries and the greatest concentration of wealth since the Gilded Age (1880's-90's). People in the bottom 20% income range earn an average of 28% less than in the 1970's, while gains have only gone to the upper 10% with income to the top one tenth of one percent increasing a whopping 332% in the last thirty years and the income of the top one hundredth of one percent 558%. This astronomical increase in income for the wealthy has mainly come through the vehicle of stock options in publicly traded corporations. I am interested in changes in law that will move the U.S. toward economic democracy and away from the plutocracy towards which our economy has been spiralling.
My background and interests include gerontology, family studies, ethnicity, philosophy, cooking, economics, and classical music.
