Middle-Out Wins

Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer

Civic Ventures

Business, Government, News, Politics

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

2023 was a big year for middle-out policy and research, so we are recapping some of the biggest middle-out moments that are improving people's lives and helping us close the book on America’s neoliberal era. Today, Civic Ventures writer Paul Constant joins Goldy to help recap the biggest middle-out successes of 2023 that have benefited workers, and are changing the way people think about economic cause and effect. This episode shines a light on policies, movements, labor actions/strikes, groundbreaking reports, and research that have made a real difference in people's lives and is changing the way economists and policymakers should think about and manage economic policy. Voicemail: 731-388-9334 Email: [email protected] Bidenomics is Real Economics https://time.com/6343967/bidenomics-is-real-economics Website: http://pitchforkeconomics.com Twitter: @PitchforkEcon Instagram: @pitchforkeconomics Nick’s twitter: @NickHanauer

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0:00.0	I'm David Goldstein, Senior Fellow at Civic Ventures.
0:07.0	I'm Paul Constant and I'm a writer. Senior Fellow at Civic Ventures.
0:13.0	I'm Paul Constant and I'm a writer at Civic Ventures.
0:19.0	Paul!
0:20.0	Hi!
0:21.0	Hey Paul, you feel like a winner?
0:26.2	Well, do you mean personally?
0:27.7	Because no, I've got a little case of Charlie Brown syndrome.
0:30.1	But do you mean economically then?
0:32.2	Professionally?
0:33.0	Economically yes.
0:35.0	Why?
0:36.0	What's going on?
0:37.0	What's going on this year?
0:38.0	Well, you know, I mean, it's always a complicated question
0:41.0	when you talk about economics, right?
0:42.0	You always have to acknowledge that the system is in some respects
0:47.1	failing a lot of people in terms of housing in terms of costs at the grocery store is still too high, but when you look at where we were just three years ago when the pandemic was underway and all these people were unemployed and we weren't sure how or if the economy was going to rebound from that,
1:06.6	really we are in the middle of one of the most remarkable economic recoveries that this nation has ever had.
1:15.0	And I mean that literally. I'm not being hyperbolic here.
1:18.0	Well, I'll do you one better, Mr. Sunshine.
1:21.0	If you look at where we were just one year ago when eminent economists like
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