Linda Fay Engle-Harris walks a block from her home where many homes are in bad shape. Tunica County, Mississippi was once one of the poorest counties in America.

Is Inequality a Choice?

The Leonard Lopate Show | Oct 26, 2015

Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz discusses why he feels inequality is a choice. In Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy: An Agenda for Growth and Shared Prosperity, he urges the U.S. to curb the runaway flow of wealth to the top one percent, to restore security and opportunity for the middle class, and to foster stronger growth rooted in broadly shared prosperity.

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