Strength Through Equality

The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 1, 2010
Kate Pickett, senior lecturer at the University of York in England and a National Institute for Health Research Career Scientist, talks about her book The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger and how research shows that most of society's problems stem not from what people lack, but from the disparity between the haves and have-nots.

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