"winneis-take-all politics" by two of the cinntry's top political scientists, jacob hacker and paul pierson. they were drawn to a mystery every bit as puzzling as a crimi arama "how washingtonade the rich richer and turned its back on the middle class." quote -- "we wanted to know how our economy stopped working to provide prosperity and security for the broad middle class." and that's what you saw. >> i think a lot of people know. the top one or two wrongs have shot up into the stratosphere while all of the other ones have stayed more or less in place. it's reallygs astonishing how concentrated the games of economic growth have been. >> you know the startling statisic that we have in the book is that if you take all of the income gains from 1979 to 2007, so allic the increased household income over that period around 40% of those gains went to the top t1%. andf you look at the bottom l 90%, they had less than hat ha combined. and it's not just a o or a two-year story. i mean, we've seen a terrible economy over the last few years. and the last decade is now being called "the lost decade" be

. >> jacob hacker and paul pierson, thank you. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. >> coincden i first met with jacob hacker and paul pierson on the very day occupy wall street has sprung up in lower manhattan and i wondered if as so many others did, were we seeing the advance guard of a movement by organized people to challenge the power of organized money? well, it's still too soon to know. but in the weeks that followed, every time we went down to the encampment, there was no mistaking the message. >> i don't know thousands of dollars to go buy myself a lobbyist to lobby for my views. but corporations do. >> linnea palmer paton is 23 and an occupy wall street volunteer. >> this is supposed to be a government, for the people, you know, run by the people, and if our voices don't matter because we're not wealthy, that's really unacceptable and it's dangerous. >> my name is hero vincent, i'm 21 years old. i've been here since day one. my parents were foreclosured on. my father's been unemployed for a couple of years. my mother of the only one taking care of the family for a while. i've