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Income Inequality: New Gilded Age or Age of Opportunity?

Season 1 Episode 103

The panel explores the consensus view that the United States is becoming a more economically unequal society but diverges on appropriate policy responses, if any. Guests: Robert Gordon, economist and professor, Northwestern University - Jim Iuorio, managing director, TJM Institutional Services - Michael Tanner, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute - Joan Walsh, national affairs correspondent, MSNBC.

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