Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers Alan Krueger was at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last night to talk about what it's going to take to strengthen the middle class in the United States.
It might come as a surprise, but rock and roll has more to say about wealth inequality than you might think, as he explained last night. One big theme of Krueger's speech was that children born into countries with higher levels of income inequality are less likely to move up from one income bracket to another later in life -- it's called The Gatsby Curve.
Learn more about that here or check out the whole speech here.
The Great Gatsby Curve illustrates the connection between concentration of wealth in one generation and the ability of those in the next generation to move up the economic ladder compared to their parents.
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