# Professor Jonathan Haidt discusses the role of income inequality in the nation's political discourse

1 Faculty News July 27, 2017 ![Press Mentor logo 192 x 144](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/pressmentor192x144.jpg?itok=sX_YM_TB)>

Excerpt from [Press Mentor](http://www.pressmentor.com/news/20170727/incomes-getting-more-unequal-tied-to-anti-union-efforts) -- "'I think Republicans need to take income inequality more seriously,' said social psychologist [Jonathan Haidt](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/jonathan-haidt), who teaches Ethical Leadership at New York University’s Stern School of Business. It’s 'not because I favor equality of outcomes. I do not. I think the Right is correct to stress merit and earned rewards, not handouts and forced equality. But I think what Republicans are blind to is that power corrupts.'"

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