From the campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country.

Here's your host, Scott Bertrand.

Hello again, everybody, and welcome into another edition of The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour.

On this episode, we'll hear portions of a conversation between Hillsdale President, Dr. Larry Arne,

and Brian Westbury, Chief Economist at First Trust Advisors LP, about the coronavirus and public policy.

Trent England joins us to discuss his new book, Why We Must Defend the Electoral College.

And Tom Connor, former history professor at Hillsdale College, will join us on this Memorial Day weekend to talk about Netherlands-American Cemetery.

First, as we told you last week, Hillsdale College has launched an online symposium

titled the coronavirus and public policy exploring the crisis as it relates to issues of

American public policy.

You can find all five sessions at symposium.hillsdale.edu.

We'll hear portions of a conversation today between Hillsdale President,

Dr. Larry Arne, and Brian Westbury, Chief Economist at First Trust Advisors LP, on

the Economic Remifications of Economic Shutdown. Here's Hillsdale President, Dr. Larry Arn.

I want to answer your question about employment and unemployment.

It looks to me like one of the glories of the American economy in the last four years is the very low rates of unemployment and how employment is reaching into places with low-income people and long-term unemployed where it hasn't been for decades.

Why do you think that happened and how do we get that back?

Yeah, I think it happened for a couple of reasons.

Number one, it was an 11-year-long economic recovery.

And I get it, it was slow, all right?

But when President Trump came in, we were in the fours in unemployment, and then he was able to push it down to three and a half percent, which is the lowest we've seen in 50 years.

And I think there's two key reasons for that. Number one, we cut corporate tax rates. It was the United States had one of the highest, well, in fact,

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