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CURE and the Digital Studies Center cordially invite you to attend the Screening and Discussion of: 

Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream (2012)

Directed by Alex Gibney

Written by Alex Gibney, Chad Beck, Adam Bolt

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney presents his take on the gap between rich and poor Americans in Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream.  Gibney contends that America’s richest citizens have “rigged the fame in their favor,” and created unprecedented inequality in the United States.

Discussants: Paul A. Jargowsky, Ph.D., director of the Center for Urban Research and Education, and professor or Public Policy at Rutgers University;

Sheheryar Banuri, economist with the Development Research Group (Macroeconomics and Growth Team), and director of the Behavioral Science Lab at the World Bank.

Friday, November 21, 2014 12pm – 2pm
Faculty Lounge, Armitage Hall
Lunch will be served 

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Please join us for our next seminar:

 “To, For, With”…

 

Angel Rodriguez
Vice President of Community Economic Development

Asociación Puertorriqueños En Marcha (APM) 

Friday, November 14, 2014 12pm – 2pm
Private Dining Room Campus Center
Lunch will be served 

 Philadelphia is known for being a city of neighborhoods, neighborhoods with very distinct flavors, amenities and people. How do these neighborhoods experience and deal with change? Is change something that is done “to” the neighborhood, done “for” the neighborhood or more importantly done “with” the neighborhood? (more…)