Ben Hecht: 'Inequality Of Income Presents A Threat To Our Society, Our Economy And Our Democracy'

Ben Hecht, CEO of Living Cities, is an impact investor whose passion makes him more of a crusader than a financier. (Disclosure: a former client, the Community Foundation of Utah has an application for a loan pending with Living Cities.)Consider his statement to me, “Unless we ferociously change course, the majority of our citizens in 2040 will be less educated, less prosperous, and less free than our current majority, due to decades of dysfunctional systems, disinvestment, mass incarceration...