Document Type
Research Paper
Publication Date
11-2020
Faculty Advisor
Professor Andrew Vogel
Abstract
The rise of the super rich dramatically rose in the 1980’s. The once dominant oil and gas sector was taken over by finance and technology overall. We are able to see a rise of these super rich, or the one percent, and even how quickly they were able to recover from the 2008 Recession. Now, the one percent are making continuous substantial gains in a current world, where a pandemic has struck and many are struggling. I talk about the use of public policy in order to regain this economic gap between the one percent and the rest of the world. I conclude the thought of how the world may be different if public policy were more strict in times of uncertainty.
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Recommended Citation
Santos, Lucas A., "The Rich" (2020). English Department: Research for Change - Wicked Problems in Our World. 20.
https://research.library.kutztown.edu/wickedproblems/20
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