America Are We Ready to Save the Middle Class?
Today we look at how much capitalism and how much socialism is needed to save America's middle class.
Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast
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Show Notes
Today we examine how much capitalism and how much socialism is needed to save America's middle class.
On Today's Show:
Pavlina R. Tcherneva, associate professor at Bard College and research scholar at the Levy Economics Institute and the author of The Case for a Job Guarantee (Polity, 2020) and Oren Cass, executive director of American Compass, a domestic policy advisor for the Romney presidential campaign and the author of The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America (Encounter Books, 2018), talk about where on the spectrum from capitalist to socialist each candidate stands, from their own very different points of view.