but though bob lerman agrees that what he calls the super- duper rich have been pulling away from the rest of us, he thinks there's a more positive way to look at our picture of inequality. >> it's accurate for financial and housing wealth but not for the comprehensive picture of wealth. the distribution of wealth is still wide but it's not nearly so wide as you might expect. >> reporter: we'll look into this and other issues further as we continue our series on economic inequality. >> brown: in a coming report, paul explores connections between economic status and personal health. >> ifill: finally tonight, we launch an 18-month focus on the nation's high school dropout rate. the american graduate project-- a partnership with public radio and television-- will examine the breadth of the problem as well as its consequences. the numbers are staggering. one third of u.s. high school students don't graduate on time. and latino and african american boys are twice as likely to become high school dropouts. the result: higher rates of incarceration, unemployment and poverty. among the soluti

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as director of lectures and seminars, it's my privilege to welcome everyone to the louis lerman auditorium and of course welcome those that joined on the heritage of.org website as well as those who will be joining us on c-span on a future occasion. we do ask everyone in house to make that courtesy check that sells phones have been turned off as we proceed. always good that the speaker does that especially. [laughter] and we will post the program within 24 hours on the web site for everyone's future reference. hosting the discussion this morning and introducing the special guest is make, a policy analyst in the thomas wrote institute for economic policy studies. he focuses on energy, environmental and regulatory issues and he also examines energy prices and other economic effects of an environmental policy and regulations, particularly looking at climate change or cap-and-trade legislation, and he articulates of course the benefit of the free-market environmentalism. he's appeared on many radio programs locally as well as serving as an associate for the charles cook charitable foundation p