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Episode 8: Maya MacGuineas on the Debt and the Deficit

Episode 8: Maya MacGuineas on the Debt and the Deficit

FromC-SPAN's The Weekly


Episode 8: Maya MacGuineas on the Debt and the Deficit

FromC-SPAN's The Weekly

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Length:
30 minutes
Released:
Apr 14, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Our guest this week is the Maya MacGuineas, She is the president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and the head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. We talked with her about the differences between the $20 trillion debt and the year-to-year deficit and why failing to raise the debt ceiling could be catastrophic for the U.S. and global economies.
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Released:
Apr 14, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

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Connecting today's political discourse with the past 40 years of politics. Using audio taken from C-SPAN's vast Video Library, each episode focuses on a theme tied to current events providing a unique perspective on today's news.