Ep: 4-75 At last the Democrats talking about the poor with Nathaniel Popkin
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English - February 15, 2019 15:32 - 54 minutes - 50.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsNews Society & Culture politics world geo Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Today we are joined by writer and thinker Nathaniel Popkin Philadelphia-based writer, editor, and historian to look at attitudes to wealth and poverty in the US and the Democratic party's new found enthusiasm for talking about it.
Presidential campaigns are not usually about poverty. Poverty is something that candidates pay lip service too but little more. Things are normally termed around helping the “middle class” or “American families,” not the poorest of the poor, why are things shaping up so differently this time around?
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