Robert Reich on Social Justice and Social Empathy

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Robert Reich on Social Justice and Social Empathy

May 2004 | TRT 1:30

What does empathy have to do with inequality? At this GGSC event, Robert Reich, former U.S. secretary of labor and a professor at UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy, discusses how socio-economic inequality contributes to frayed social bonds—and explains what we can do about it.

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