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The historian Adam Toos traces the moment America became the world's greatest economic power back to World War I.

By financing the war against Germany, the United States emerged quite suddenly

as a novel kind of superstate, he writes. After more than a century of preeminence,

the persistence of extreme poverty in America is puzzling.

In the last recession, the share of Americans classified as poor jumped from 12 to 17 percent, more

than most European countries.

But the 2007 crisis pales into insignificance next to the economic shock America is experiencing

now amid the coronavirus pandemic. With 115 days to go, this is

checks and balance.

I'm John Prado, the Economist's US editor, and this is a podcast about the 2020 elections.

Each week we take one big theme shaping American politics and explore it in death.

Today, has the coronavirus changed the politics of poverty? poverty.

Congress is debating whether to extend federal aid for people out of work beyond the end of the month. Employment numbers bounce back in June, but there are still 10 million more jobless than there were before COVID hit America, and reopening

has stalled as the virus spreads. Meanwhile, there's evidence poverty levels

have been falling thanks to the stimulus. How might these emergency interventions

influence a longer-term anti-poverty strategy? In this

episode we'll find out which president came closest to introducing a universal basic income

and the me as ever to discuss all of this are Charlotte Howard, the economists New York Bureau Chief

and John Fasman, the Washington correspondent. Charlotte, how are you doing? How is the

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