A Generational Reckoning

In the 30 years since we “won” the Cold War, we’ve seen the first generations of Americans come of age who are not likely to have better standards of living than their parents. Catherine Rampell, syndicated opinion columnist at The Washington Post, political/economic commentator at CNN and special correspondent at PBS Newshour and Eduardo Porter, economics reporter for the business section of The New York Times and the author of American Poison: How Racial Hostility Destroyed Our Promise (Knopf, 2020), review the statistics and explain how this happened in a post-Communist world in which a rising tide of capitalism and democracy was supposed to lift all boats.

This segment originally aired on the national program America, Are We Ready? on Thursday, September 24, 2020