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Left Behind: The Democrats’ Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality
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90/100Author:
Lily Geismer
Publisher:
PublicAffairs
Date:
March 1, 2022
A history professor explores the transformation of the Democrats over 40 years from purveyors of social-welfare policies to neoliberal ideology and market approaches to solve poverty and economic inequality.
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... important.
... should make almost any left-of-center reader retroactively furious about the 1990s and the inability of its architects to foresee the twenty-first century they were creating.
By the end of Bill Clinton’s presidency, the poverty rate was the lowest in decades. The U.S. economy was enjoying an unprecedented expansion.
Geismer deftly weaves politics with policy to show how the Democrats reimagined poverty as a market failure.
