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Your Call: How is growing inequality affecting our kids’ future?

On the April 21st edition of Your Call, we’ll have a conversation with Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam about his new book, Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis, a groundbreaking work exploring the inequality of opportunity between rich kids and poor kids. How does inequality affect social mobility and what should be done about it? Join the conversation on the next Your Call, with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:

Robert Putnam, professor of Public Policy at Harvard University and author of Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis

Web Resources:

NY Times: Crumbling American Dreams

Salon: The American people are clueless: Why income inequality is so much worse than we realize

CSM: 'Our Kids' suggests an American dream out of reach for many