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The problem with unequal cities (with Richard McGahey)

Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer

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The Los Angeles Chapter on Inequality

Marwood: If you live in the U.S., you're going to be living in an unequal system. But LA has, I think, taken measures for that. New York, my chapter starts with the fiscal crisis. And but this is true for lots of metropolitan areas. The tax base moves out to the suburbs. They don't have federal aid and they get into fiscal trouble. Marwood: There's not a vision of the economy of New York except largely as something that produces wealth that you can try and redistribute.

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