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Public Pension Supporters Reconsider Socially Responsible Investing

Socially responsible investing was once attractive to the directors of the California Pension Employees’ Retirement System, or CALPERS, but they may be rethinking it. Here & Now’s Robin Young speaks with Derek Thompson (@DKThomp), senior editor at The Atlantic, about why others may be reconsidering it as well.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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