Al Franken on Funding the IRS | Heather McGhee’s “The Sum of Us”
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
The Story of the Drained Public Pool
The sum of us is a series of stories about how America's public goods have been atrophying. It tells the story of what happened to nearly 2,000 lavishly funded grand resort style public swimming pools that were built in an era when housing subsidies were happening. The core message is that through collective action, people coming together, recognizing lines of race and solidarity, we all do better than one another.
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