Leid Stories - The Hidden Costs of Wealth - 09/26/12

Dr. Thomas Shapiro, one of the nation's leading authorities on wealth disparity, discusses the hidden costs of wealth in the United States, its generational impact, and why "wealthfare," as he calls it, all but guarantees social injustice far into the future. Dr. Shapiro directs the Institute on Assets and Social Policy and is the Pokross Professor of Law and Social Policy at Brandeis University.