Is US Wealth Inequality Undermining Democracy?
On Shifting Ground
English - October 30, 2023 09:00 - 28 minutes - 39 MB - ★★★★ - 163 ratingsNews Government affairs council development policy arts business democracy economy foreign global Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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What do you need to know about wealth to understand structural inequality in America? Becoming wealthy is getting harder with each generation, and the biggest predictor of whether you’ll achieve it isn’t your class… but your race. Ray Suarez sits down with economist Darrick Hamilton to discuss closing the racial wealth gap in the US.
Guest:
Darrick Hamilton, American economist and Henry Cohen Professor of Economics and Urban Policy and Professor at The New School for Social Research
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