Dream Hoarders: Is the Upper Middle Class Leaving Everyone Else Behind?

In his much-discussed book Dream Hoarders, Richard V. Reeves asserts that the most important gap in America is between the top 20% (not just the 1%) and everyone else. Is the upper middle class hoarding the American dream? Graduate Center professors and scholars from the GC’s Stone Center—Janet Gornick, Paul Krugman, and Leslie McCall—take a critical look at Reeves’s conclusions in conversation with the author, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. They are joined by Miles Corak from the University of Ottawa, who becomes a professor in the GC Economics Program and a senior scholar in the Stone Center in 2018.

Presented on November 15, 2017, by GC Public Programs and Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality.

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