MONEY Colloquium Film Series at Lebanon Valley College Presents "Inside Job"

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Lebanon Valley College will show “Inside Job” April 10 at the Allen Theatre in Annville at 5:30 p.m.

ANNVILLE, PA (03/20/2012)(readMedia)-- Lebanon Valley College will show "Inside Job" April 10 at the Allen Theatre in Annville at 5:30 p.m. The film screening is part of LVC's Colloquium Series on MONEY. Tickets are $1 for non-LVC students and $3 for the general public. The film is free to LVC students.

In November 2007 the United States fell into what is now called The Great Recession. This infamous period came after a lengthy stage of deregulation in the financial industry. According to a report by CNN Money in 2010, U.S. citizens have been deeply affected by the recession, with 7.9 million jobs lost. "Inside Job" presents in-depth research as to why the financial crisis occurred. This Academy Award-winning film is divided into five parts that explain who is accountable for the recession and how the country was faring at the time of the documentary's release in 2010.

MONEY is a year long integrated series of guest speakers, roundtable discussions, films, and courses that consider society's idea of money. It will involve presentations on problems such as unemployment, poverty, and the gender wage gap, as well as discussions on tax policy, the job market and entrepreneurship, and finally a theoretical consideration of the very idea of money, the ideology of the free market, and the morality and theology of capitalism.