.@RepMikeHonda invites Richard Wilkinson to DC for Congressional Briefing
THE SPIRIT LEVEL co-author Richard Wilkinson will return to the United States in two weeks to discuss his work at Boston-area colleges, before heading to Washington D.C. for a Congressional briefing with Representative Mike Honda on Friday October 7.
Wilkinson is the co-author of THE SPIRIT LEVEL, the groundbreaking study which analyzes the effects of economic inequality on any given population.
“My impression is that we have largely ridden out the controversies stirred up by the right wing attacks,” Wilkinson said. “We are becoming more widely accepted in the center ground of politics.”
Wilkinson and THE SPIRIT LEVEL will also be featured on PBS’s NewsHour in the coming weeks, in a segment on inequality with economics correspondent Paul Solman. The talks in Boston have been organized by Maguire Associates and the think tank Demos has organized the Congressional Briefing.
Monday, October 3, at 4 p.m.
Boston University
Metcalf Trustee Center, One Silber Way.
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 6:30 p.m.
New England College
Great Room, Simon Center
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 6:00 p.m.
Northeastern University
West Village-F, Room 20
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 12:30 p.m.
Lasell College
Rosen Auditorium
Friday October 7
Congressional Briefing with Representative Mike Honda
Capitol Hill
Washington D.C.
