David Wessel, senior fellow and director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy, looks at Hillary Clinton’s and Donald Trump’s different approaches to policy issues including taxes, family leave, and trade.

“Hilary Clinton believes that the gap between the rich and poor, between the winners and losers in our economy has gotten too big and she wants to use the tax system to reduce that inequality, not eliminate it but restrain what the market is doing to produce this big inequality gap,” Wessel says. “Donald Trump doesn’t seem to think that’s very important; his tax policy… would actually widen the gap between rich and poor.”

Also in this episode, John Hudak, deputy director of the Center for Effective Public Management and a senior fellow in Governance Studies, provides a general election update and discusses the upcoming first presidential debate.