203 Video: Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson on Engineered Inequality

Moyers & Company dives into one of the most important and controversial issues of our time: How Washington and Big Business colluded to make the super-rich richer and turn their backs on the rest of us.

Bill’s guests, Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson (authors of Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer—and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class), argue that America’s vast inequality is no accident, but in fact has been politically engineered.[1]

Watch the video here.


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