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The New Urban Crisis Accelerated Inequality in Metro Cities

Professor Richard Florida says cities are increasing inequality and how pockets of concentrated wealth and poverty are squeezing out the middle class.
By Ali Velshi and Stephanie Ruhle

Richard Florida, urban studies professor at the University of Toronto and author of "The New Urban Crisis” discussed how cities are increasing inequality and how pockets of concentrated wealth and poverty are squeezing out the middle class.

How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality

June 16, 201705:23
Ali Velshi

Ali Velshi is an MSNBC columnist and the host of “Velshi,” which airs Saturdays and Sundays on MSNBC. He has been awarded the National Headliner Award for Business & Consumer Reporting for “How the Wheels Came Off,” a special on the near collapse of the American auto industry. His work on disabled workers and Chicago’s red-light camera scandal in 2016 earned him two News and Documentary Emmy Award nominations, adding to a nomination in 2010 for his terrorism coverage.

Stephanie Ruhle

Stephanie Ruhle is an MSNBC anchor and senior business correspondent for NBC News.