Professor Joseph Stiglitz Featured in Real Change News
‘We have a choice’: Joseph Stiglitz sees opportunity ahead
In 2015, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz returned to Horace Mann High School in Gary, Indiana, for his 55th high school reunion.
As Stiglitz gathered with his former classmates, he said, he saw first the impacts of economic inequality and “some of the consequences of not investing adequately in our young people.”
“You see it in [their] health. You see it in the lives that they lived [and] their ability to contribute to our society,” Stiglitz said. “And in the hope that they have [and] the frustrations, the disparity between what they had hoped for in their lives and what they actually achieved." . . .