America prides itself on being a classless society, where hard work and talent get you ahead, however the United States is marked by a deepening class divide. Influential political thinker Richard Reeves argues that the ‘opportunity-hoarding’ US upper middle classes are making it much harder for everyone else to climb the economic ladder.
Watch Richard Reeves, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, in our latest RSA Spotlight – the edits which take you straight to the heart of the event!
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