Beyond the leaky bucket

Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.4 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Heather Boushey of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth makes the case that a rise in equality would stimulate the economy. Guest: Heather Boushey (@HBoushey), Executive Director and Chief Economist at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth Hosts: Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior correspondent, Vox Jane Coaston (@cjane87), Senior politics reporter, Vox Dara Lind (@DLind), Immigration reporter, ProPublica More to explore: Subscribe to Impeachment, Explained on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Overcast, Pocket Casts, or your favorite podcast app to get stay updated on this story every week. About Vox Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Follow Us: Vox.com Facebook group: The Weeds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:44.7	UK. And equality is one of the dominant issues of our time and
0:48.3	Heather Boucher is an economist who has worked a lot on this
0:50.6	subject. It's a great book out called Unbound, sort of arguing
0:54.2	about the relationship between inequality and growth. We had a
0:56.8	great conversation, range across a range of sort of topics in
1:00.3	economic policy, but really cuts to the heart. What a lot of
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1:18.6	Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the box
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