What Is Meritocracy? | Short Pitch | Richard Reeves

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Might the middle class be hoarding opportunity, like the upper class hoard wealth? Economist and author of Dream Hoarders Richard Reeves explores inequality, dreams and blame.

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Reeves is Co-Director of the Center on Children and Families at Brookings, working principally on issues related to intergenerational mobility, inequality and social change. In 2014, he published a Brookings Essay, Saving Horatio Alger, along with a video in which he used Lego bricks to illustrate levels of social mobility in the U.S. In May 2014, he appeared in a Daily Show segment satirizing how the complaints about the plight of the poorer members of the top 1% distracts from solutions to social mobility

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