David Wessel

Brookings Institution

Guest

Director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution and former contributing editor at the Wall Street Journal, he wrote its Capital column; author of Red Ink: Inside the High-Stakes Politics of the Federal Budget

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US economic growth may be setting records, but next year's presidential campaign will focus on poverty, stagnant wages and income disparity.

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