Next Shift with Gabriel Winant
The Dig
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What's the Story of the War on Poverty?
The poor and the economically marginal in the fifties and sixties were, in fact, the first people to be displaced by de industrialization. The number of coal mining jobs has fallen bylick over half from 19 50 to 19 60. People who would have once been attached to or part of the security of the steel industry are now excluded from it. And thus doesn't propose a problem for the private insurance companies, because it's insuring people who the private insurance s aren't insurers in the first plac right exact. It pposes no thread at all to the private provision of care, right?
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