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Whatever happened to the middle class? (with Heather Boushey and Matthew Stewart)

Whatever happened to the middle class? (with Heather Boushey and Matthew Stewart)

FromPitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer


Whatever happened to the middle class? (with Heather Boushey and Matthew Stewart)

FromPitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer

ratings:
Length:
41 minutes
Released:
Dec 31, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

The American middle class is shrinking and, contrary to popular belief, globalization and automation are not to blame. Far from inevitable, skyrocketing inequality is a choice. In this episode, we look at the policy choices that have relentlessly undermined the middle class, and why we desperately need to choose a better future.
Heather Boushey: Executive director and chief economist at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Author of Finding Time: The Economics of Work-Life Conflict.

Twitter: @HBoushey
Matthew Stewart: Philosopher, D.Phil from Oxford University. Author of Nature’s God and The Management Myth. Contributor to The Atlantic.
Website: https://mwstewart.com/
Further reading:
(1) http://evonomics.com/new-social-security-system-sharing-economy-hanauer/
(2) https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/11/overtime-pay-obama-congress-112954
Released:
Dec 31, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Any society that allows itself to become radically unequal eventually collapses into an uprising or a police state—or both. Join venture capitalist Nick Hanauer and some of the world’s leading economic and political thinkers in an exploration of who gets what and why. Turns out, everything you learned about economics is wrong. And if we don’t do something about rising inequality, the pitchforks are coming.