52 min listen
Hard Times: A History Of Unemployment
FromBackStory
ratings:
Length:
52 minutes
Released:
Feb 26, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
President Barack Obama claims that the country’s low unemployment rate shows that we’ve rebounded from the Great Recession. But presidential candidates Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders say the “real” unemployment rate is much higher. During this episode of BackStory, the Guys will look at the invention of the official unemployment rate, discuss the struggle among Baltimore’s working classes in the early 19th century to find and keep work, and uncover the hidden history of unemployment in the U.S.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (https://megaphone.fm/adchoices)
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (https://megaphone.fm/adchoices)
Released:
Feb 26, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
The Middling Sort: Visions of the Middle Class [rebroadcast] by BackStory