{"id":872,"date":"2015-07-22T19:22:07","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T19:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.candelalearning.com\/masteryusgovernment1x6xmaster\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=872"},"modified":"2015-07-27T21:21:38","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T21:21:38","slug":"video-jacob-hacker-and-paul-pierson-on-engineered-inequality","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/spokanecc-americangovernment\/chapter\/video-jacob-hacker-and-paul-pierson-on-engineered-inequality\/","title":{"raw":"Video: Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson on Engineered Inequality","rendered":"Video: Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson on Engineered Inequality"},"content":{"raw":"Moyers<em> &amp; Company<\/em> dives into one of the most important and controversial issues of our time: How Washington and Big Business colluded to make the super-rich richer and turn their backs on the rest of us.\r\n\r\nBill\u2019s guests, Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson (authors of\u00a0<em>Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer\u2014and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class), <\/em>argue that America\u2019s vast inequality is no accident, but in fact has been politically engineered.[footnote]Quoted on <a href=\"http:\/\/billmoyers.com\/segment\/jacob-hacker-paul-pierson-on-engineered-inequality\/?utm_source=sidebar&amp;utm_medium=graphic&amp;utm_term=may&amp;utm_campaign=inequality\" target=\"_blank\">Moyers &amp; Company website<\/a>.[\/footnote]\r\n\r\nWatch the video <a href=\"http:\/\/billmoyers.com\/segment\/jacob-hacker-paul-pierson-on-engineered-inequality\/?utm_source=sidebar&amp;utm_medium=graphic&amp;utm_term=may&amp;utm_campaign=inequality\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.","rendered":"<p>Moyers<em> &amp; Company<\/em> dives into one of the most important and controversial issues of our time: How Washington and Big Business colluded to make the super-rich richer and turn their backs on the rest of us.<\/p>\n<p>Bill\u2019s guests, Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson (authors of\u00a0<em>Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer\u2014and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class), <\/em>argue that America\u2019s vast inequality is no accident, but in fact has been politically engineered.<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"Quoted on Moyers &amp; Company website.\" id=\"return-footnote-872-1\" href=\"#footnote-872-1\" aria-label=\"Footnote 1\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[1]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watch the video <a href=\"http:\/\/billmoyers.com\/segment\/jacob-hacker-paul-pierson-on-engineered-inequality\/?utm_source=sidebar&amp;utm_medium=graphic&amp;utm_term=may&amp;utm_campaign=inequality\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"before-footnotes clear\" \/><div class=\"footnotes\"><ol><li id=\"footnote-872-1\">Quoted on <a href=\"http:\/\/billmoyers.com\/segment\/jacob-hacker-paul-pierson-on-engineered-inequality\/?utm_source=sidebar&amp;utm_medium=graphic&amp;utm_term=may&amp;utm_campaign=inequality\" target=\"_blank\">Moyers &amp; Company website<\/a>. <a href=\"#return-footnote-872-1\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 1\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><\/ol><\/div>","protected":false},"author":923,"menu_order":11,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-872","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":784,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/spokanecc-americangovernment\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/spokanecc-americangovernment\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/spokanecc-americangovernment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/spokanecc-americangovernment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/923"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/spokanecc-americangovernment\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1155,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/spokanecc-americangovernment\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/872\/revisions\/1155"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/spokanecc-americangovernment\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/784"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/spokanecc-americangovernment\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/872\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/spokanecc-americangovernment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/spokanecc-americangovernment\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=872"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/spokanecc-americangovernment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=872"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/spokanecc-americangovernment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}