Richard Reeves, a senior fellow in Economic Studies and co-director of the Center on Children and Families, discusses his new book Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do about It and outlines why distinctions in the American middle class matter.
Also in this episode: Camille Busette, director of the Race, Place, and Economic Mobility Initiative, stops in for our regular “Coffee Break” segment.
Show Notes:
The intersection of race, place, and multidimensional poverty
Horatio Alger goes to Washington: Representation and social mobility
6 charts showing race gaps within the American middle class
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Authors
Commentary
PodcastHoarding the American Dream
Richard V. Reeves,
Richard V. Reeves
President
- American Institute for Boys and Men
@RichardvReeves
Bill Finan, and
Bill Finan
Director
- Brookings Institution Press
@billfinan
Fred Dews
Fred Dews
Managing Editor, New Digital Products
- Office of Communications
@publichistory
June 16, 2017