Rich and Poor - Call for Fotos - Luis Leal Award

The Rich Get Richer, The Rest of Us Get The Shaft

The Colorado Center on Law and Policy today (February 19) released the following joint statement in partnership with The Bell Policy Center and the Colorado Fiscal Institute.

The gap between the wealthiest Coloradans and everyone else turned into a chasm following the Great Recession, according to a report released today. In that time, Colorado's top 1 percent accounted for all of the state's growth in income, while the other 99 percent saw a decline in income.

The report, The Increasingly Unequal States of America, is published by the Economic Policy Institute. EPI's Colorado partners include The Bell Policy Center, the Colorado Center on Law and Policy and the Colorado Fiscal Institute. 

The report found that in Colorado, between 2009 and 2011:

• The wealthiest 1 percent accounted for all of the income growth - one of 17 states where that happened.
• The top 1 percent saw income growth of 23.5 percent, while the other 99 percent of Coloradans saw income decline by 4 percent.
• The average income for the top 1 percent in Colorado in 2011 was $1,098,682, while the average for the bottom 99 percent was $46,837.

In assessing a longer-term period of inequality, the report found that from 1979 to 2007, Colorado generally tracked national averages (all data is adjusted for inflation):

• The top 1 percent income recipients in Colorado saw their income rise by 200.8 percent for the period. (For the U.S average, the comparable number is 200.5 percent.)
• The bottom 99 percent saw their income rise by 21.2 percent. (U.S. average: 18.9 percent.)
• The 1 percent in Colorado took home 48.3 percent of all income growth in the state in that period. (U.S.: 53.9 percent.)
• Colorado ranks 15th for income growth for the top 1 percent. Connecticut led the way with 414.6 percent, while West Virginia was last, at 74.1 percent.
• Among neighboring states, Colorado ranked behind only Wyoming and Utah in income growth for the 1 percent. Wyoming's 1 percenters saw their income rise by 354.3 percent (versus a loss of 0.8 percent for the 99 percenters). Utah's numbers were 214.9 percent and 15.4 percent.
• In 1928, the previous high-water mark for inequality, Colorado's 1 percenters took home 19.3 percent of state income. In 1979, it was 9 percent, and in 2007, it was 19.7 percent.
• From 1928 to 1979, the 1 percent's share of all state income declined by 10.3 percent. From 1979 to 2007, the 1 percenters' share of state income increased by 10.7 percent. 

The authors of The Increasingly Unequal States of America compiled data from the Internal Revenue Service for every state - the amount of income and the number of taxpayers in different income ranges - from 1928 to 2011. In tracking the recent prolonged period of inequality, the authors started with 1979 because that was the peak of a business cycle and because that year is seen as a starting point for rising income inequality. It ends with 2007 because it was the peak of the most recent business cycle.

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Annual Juried Photography Exhibition

The Focused Eye

Call For Entries

March 7-29, 2014

Chac Art Gallery
772 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, CO 80204

Judges: Hal Gould, Loretta Young-Gautier

Chac curators:
Judy Miranda and Charlie Walter

Prizes:
Best of Show -$100.00
Judges Award -$50.00
Most Unique $25.00

Important Dates
All delivery and pick up times must be met. Consider dates carefully before entering.
If you are interested email: Judy Miranda, fotojudy@comcast.net or Charlie Walter, chalee9533@gmail.com - subject line: Photography Exhibition.

February 28, 12-5 p.m.
Deliver art work to Chac Gallery

March 4
Jury date

March 5, 12-4 p.m.
Work not accepted must be picked up

March 7, 6-9 p.m.
Opening

March 21, 7-9 p.m.
Awards presentation

March 29,12-4 p.m.
All works must be picked up.

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John Rechy

John Rechy Receives Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature

 [from the press release]

John Rechy is this year’s recipient of the UC Santa Barbara’s Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature. The award was presented February 6.

Rechy is the author of several highly acclaimed novels, including “City of Night,” which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2013; “Numbers”; and “The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gomez.” In addition, his essays have appeared in The Nation, The New York Review of Books, the Los Angeles Times, L.A. Weekly, The Village Voice, The New York Times and Saturday Review. He is the first novelist to receive PEN-USA’s Lifetime Achievement Award and is the first recipient of ONE Magazine’s Culture Hero Award.

Rechy has been nominated twice for the Los Angeles Times Book Awards Body of Work designation, and he has been named a fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts. In addition, he has received fiction awards from Phi Kappa Phi and the Longview Foundation.

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Novelist John Rechy is this year’s recipient of the UC Santa Barbara’s Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature. The award will be presented during a ceremony at 4 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 6, in the University Center’s Corwin Pavilion at UCSB. The event is free and open to the public.
Rechy is the author of several highly acclaimed novels, including “City of Night,” which celebrated its 50^th anniversary in 2013; “Numbers”; and “The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gomez.” In addition, his essays have appeared in The Nation, The New York Review of Books, the Los Angeles Times, L.A. Weekly, The Village Voice, The New York Times and Saturday Review. He is the first novelist to receive PEN-USA’s Lifetime Achievement Award and is the first recipient of ONE Magazine’s Culture Hero Award.
Rechy has been nominated twice for the Los Angeles Times Book Awards Body of Work designation, and he has been named a fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts. In addition, he has received fiction awards from Phi Kappa Phi and the Longview Foundation.
“John Rechy is one of the most productive and courageous American writers of Mexican ancestry in the United States,” said Mario T. García, professor of Chicana and Chicano studies and of history at UCSB, and the organizer of the annual Leal Award. “In his many novels and other writings, beginning with his classic ‘City of Night’ of the early 1960s, Rechy has always pushed the envelope. Like all great writers, his work is artistic but also a commentary on social mores. He honors UCSB by receiving the Leal Award.”
Born in El Paso, Texas, of Mexican and Scottish ancestry, Rechy graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso. He has lectured at Harvard, Yale, Duke, UCLA, Occidental College and the University of Northern Illinois, among others. He currently teaches graduate courses in film and literature at the University of Southern California.
The Leal Award is named in honor of Luis Leal, a professor emeritus of Chicana and Chicano Studies at UCSB, who was internationally recognized as a leading scholar of Chicano and Latino literature. Previous award recipients of the award include Demetria Martínez, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Graciela Limón, Pat Mora, Alejandro Morales, Helena Maria Viramontes, Oscar Hijuelos, Rudolfo Anaya, Denise Chávez and Hector Tobar.
- See more at: http://www.news.ucsb.edu/node/013926/ucsb-honor-city-night-author#sthash.gOg8AB4t.dpuf