As New York Goes...

Women walk by a panhandler on Madison Avenue, one of Manhattan's premier streets, on Nov. 1, 2011. Income inequality is greatest in New York State than any where else in the U.S.

If New York is talking about something, does the rest of the country follow? Eric Alterman, columnist for The Nation, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, professor of English and journalism at Brooklyn College and the author of Inequality and One City: Bill de Blasio and the New York Experiment, Year One, discusses the connection between the inequality conversation in New York City and the national discussion of the same topic.