What the Pandemic Taught Us: American Attitudes Toward Government, Money and Work

As the pandemic hit, the American economy received the greatest shock of our lifetimes, with millions of people thrown immediately out of work and a threatened collapse of entire industries and of the financial system. We learned hard facts about what the government could and could not do. Helaine Olen from the Washington Post joins the LBJ School's James Galbraith to discuss what the pandemic taught us about American attitudes toward government, money and work — and how our politics is responding.

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