Podcast with Jacob Hacker Discussing Inequality, Mobility, & Reasons to be Optimistic

On a show hosted by Michael Baranowski – The Politics Guys – ISPS Director Jacob Hacker discusses the rise in economic insecurity, declining social mobility in the US, the ‘old contract’ versus the ‘new contract’ between employers and workers, technological change & globalization, the waves and the tides of the economy, Medicare for All, pipedreams, and more. 

The Politics Guy podcast is premised on a belief in the importance of civil & rational dialogue.  After Jacob Hacker’s interview, Baranowski will follow up with Jay Carson  with a counterview.