Incomes of Most Americans Have Been Rising

Published: April 30, 2016, 3:11 a.m.

Leslie is joined by Dr. Robert Shapiro, the Chairman of Sonecon, an economic advisory firm and a Senior Fellow of the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.

They discuss his article entitled "Whatever some candidates tell you, the incomes of most Americans have been rising." (http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/fixgov/posts/2016/04/27-americans-income-rising-shapiro)

Dr. Shapiro is an internationally-known economist who has advised, among others, President Bill Clinton, Vice President Al Gore, Jr., British Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, and then U.S. Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

He was Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs in the Clinton Administration.

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