Checks and Balance: Poor choices - a podcast by The Economist

Congress must decide whether to extend federal aid for the unemployed beyond July. Ten million more Americans are out of work than in February, but evidence has emerged offalling poverty levelsdue to the stimulus. Could the coronavirus change the politics of poverty?

John Prideaux,The Economist’s US editor, hosts with Charlotte Howard, New York bureau chief, and Washington correspondent Jon Fasman. 

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