Jacob Hacker on Winner-Take-All Politics

Jacob Hacker, author of the book "Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class," talks about the impact of failed economic policies on the working class at the AFL-CIO's headquarters in Washington on October 14, 2010. Hacker outlines the factors behind today's record levels of income disparity between the wealthy and the middle class, and the role that government under conservative ideology has played in distributing income upward. He calls his book an examination of "the DNA evidence" exposing the culprits in economic changes responsible for working-class economic stagnation.