![]() ![]() But author Richard Reeves writes it’s the upper middle class that matters most. This talk was part of the Haas Institute faculty-designed Research to Impact lecture series. Watch a recording of the talk above, which includes the sharp responses from Pierson and Fox, or read a transcript of it below. ![]() ![]() The talk was based off his recently published book, titled Dream Hoarders: How the American Middle Class is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, and drew rebuttals from two leading faculty at UC Berkeley: Cybelle Fox, Associate Professor of Sociology, and Paul Pierson, Professor of Political Science, both Haas Institute affiliated faculty. Reeves said we should instead be focusing on the top 20 percent who have tremendous influence over policy and use that sway to pursue their personal interests to the detriment of the bottom 80 percent. There's too much emphasis on the top 1 percent of wage earners when looking at who controls wealth and power in the US, Richard Reeves of the Brookings Institute argues at this Janutalk at UC Berkeley, co-sponsored by the Haas Institute and the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. ![]()
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