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AmericasDemocrat.org Netcast - December 14, 2014
America's Democrats
English - December 13, 2014 22:45 - 57 minutes - 39.6 MB - ★★★ - 54 ratingsPolitics News News Commentary democratic gop gillibrand political progressives republicans campaign campaigns committee democrat Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Joel Kotkin on the issue of class in America … Chad Broughton on the loss of middle class jobs … and Bill Press with political strategist Brad Woodhouse.
What has happened to the middle class? Author Joel Kotkin says the issue of class itself eats at the fabric of America. Sociologist Chad Broughton offers a case study of how NAFTA helped destroy middle class jobs in manufacturing. And Bill Press talks with progressive strategist Brad Woodhouse about 2016.
Joel Kotkin
Joel Kotkin is an internationally recognized authority on global, economic, political and social trends. He says the issue of class – and the widening income gap – is destroying the American economy.
http://www.joelkotkin.com/
Chad Broughton
How did America lose one-third of its manufacturing jobs in just 10 years? Sociologist Chad Broughton uses the move of a huge Maytag plant to Mexico as an example of NAFTA helping to wreck the lower middle class.
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/boom-bust-exodus-9780199765614?cc=us&lang=en&
Brad Woodhouse
Bill Press and his guest, political strategist Brad Woodhouse.
Jim Hightower
Why won't the CIA even say the word "torture"?