Great Society: Poverty Solution?
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The Great Society programs of the 1960s were perhaps the most systematic attempt to use the state to address poverty in the United States. Prize-winning author, economic historian and journalist Amity Shlaes joins us to discuss the Great Society’s origins, why it failed, and what we can learn from the experience today.