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Podcast: Commonwealth Club of California Podcast
Episode: Robert Kuttner: FDR's Legacy and President Biden's New Deal Opportunity
Description: When President Joe Biden took office, the problems the new president faced were similar to the challenges faced by another U.S. president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt: decreasing opportunity for the average American, disproportionate power of the mega-wealthy, and a starkly divided political system. To help address these issues nearly a century ago, FDR launched The New Deal, forever changing American society. To longtime political analyst Robert Kuttner, the similarities between 2022 and 1932 means President Biden has a similar opportunity to transform the country through major public investments.In his latest book, Going Big, Kuttner draws on the striking similarities between the c...