Upper Middle Class Privilege

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 13, 2017

Richard V. Reeves, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the author of 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  (Brookings Institution Press, 2017), talks about upper middle class privilege. 

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