Episode

7/28 Jennifer Mittelstadt: Who The New Deal Left Behind

July 28, 2015

Jennifer Mittelstadt a historian at Rutgers University takes a deep dive with Sam into the problematic legacy of the New Deal and explains the political compromises that excluded women and minorities from many of the benefits of the New Deal, the evolution of the Corporate welfare state and what would a “New New Deal” look like.

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