Episode

7/2 Barbara Garson: How the 99% Live in the Great Recession

July 2, 2013

Journalist Barbara Garson, explained how the 99 percent have been hit by the financial crises, the stories of loss of homes, savings and jobs, the roots of stagnating wages, why Americans blame themselves instead of understanding the structural factors behind unemployment the disaster of the Obama Administration’s HAMP program and why debt needs to be de-moralize.

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