Members of the nurses union, National Nurses United, and other workers converge on Wall Street to protest against financial intuitions and inequality on June 22, 2011 in New York City.

The Economic Policies Driving Inequality

The Leonard Lopate Show | Apr 21, 2015

Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz discusses his new book The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them. He argues that inequality is the cumulative result of unjust policies and misguided priorities, including deregulation, tax cuts, and tax breaks for the 1 percent, that are leaving many Americans farther and farther behind.

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