Hilary Clinton's Micro Credit and Micro Enterprise in the Nineties

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Hilary clinton was particularly enamored with micro credit and micro enterprise as a tool for women's empowerment. A brand of feminism, of course, that's very still palpably here to day, absolute me. For much of the nineties, there just wasn't organized resistance at any meaningful scale. Why was the so marginal in the nineties? And more specifically, what happened to jesse jackson?

Dan's second episode with historian Lily Geismer, who he interviewed in 2019 about Don't Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party. This interview is on Left Behind: The Democrats' Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality, which details the long history of Clintonism and the Democrats’ neoliberal turn. Read the latest newsletter. It's on what Ruthie meant when she said abolition was another word for communism: thedigradio.com/newsletter31 Listen to Geismer's first Dig interview: thedigradio.com/podcast/race-and-class-in-the-liberal-suburbs-with-lily-geismer Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig