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Some argue that it's harder than ever for the average American to move up the income ladder. We'll hear different perpsectives on prospects for upward economic mobility.
Jared Bernstein, Economic Policy Institute
Tim Kane, Bradley Fellow in Labor Policy, Center for Data Analysis, The Heritage Foundation
Gary Solon, professor of economics, University of Michigan
A Pulitzer Prize-winning author presents his new novel. It is set in New York City in three very different eras: the Industrial Revolution, the present, and a futuristic era populated by cyborgs - but has a unifying element: the poetry of Walt Whitman.
Michael Cunningham, novelist. His previous books include "The Hours" and "A Home at the End of the World."