The structural realities of like, what makes it extraordinarily difficult to start your own business. M, if you are a poor woman of color in m in the south side of chicago, or in lake rural arkansas. And those are just two examples of what happens. So the arkansas woman who clinton had introduced him at the signing ceremony for welfare reform, ends up in serious financial hardship really not long thereafter.
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.
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