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This edition: Heather McGhee on Racial and Economic Inequality


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Original tape date: March 15, 2016. First aired: March 21, 2016.

Bob is joined by Heather McGhee, president of Demos, a progressive think tank in New York that researches and offers both insight and wisdom on some of our most important public policy issues. These include wealth and income inequality, racial justice, and the unending struggle for a truly fair democracy. The discussion covers how racial inequality plays a large part in our nation's economic inequality as a whole.

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Heather C. McGhee Author NY Times bestseller, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

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  • Bob Herbert’s Op-Ed.TV is a weekly half-hour program featuring interviews with significant men and women from a variety of fields: officeholders and activists, economists, labor leaders, writers and artists. Herbert, a longtime journalist and former columnist for The New York Times, takes a close look each week at a compelling contemporary issue. He elicits personal stories and insights into the character of each guest, revealing not just what they believe about a particular issue, but why they believe it.

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