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Panics, Politics and Party: How Financial Panics Defined and Redefined American Politics, 1789 to the Present
In his new book, historian Scott Reynolds Nelson shows that consumer debt has underpinned almost every major financial panic in the nation’s history. Join us for a conversation with Nelson about how financial panics have shaped American politics.
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So Rich, So Poor: Reviving the Fight Against Poverty
Join us for a conversation with Peter Edelman, one of the nation’s foremost champions of the poor, about his book, So Rich, So Poor: Why It’s So Hard to End Poverty in America.
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50 years after Michael Harrington's The Other America: Where is the War on Poverty?
In 1962, Michael Harrington’s The Other America became a catalyst for “The War on Poverty,” leading to the later establishment of Medicare, Medicaid, and other social security benefits. Using archival footage and interviews with diverse thinkers, Michael Harrington and Today’s Other America: Corporate Power and Inequality (1999) chronicles the life of Harrington and the relevance of his ideas in modern America.
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50 Years After Michael Harrington's The Other America
Fifty years after the publication of The Other America, Michael Harrington’s groundbreaking study of poverty in the United States, a panel of progressive thinkers will discuss the persistence of poverty and the continuing relevance of Harrington’s ideas to today.
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