Progress is a Long Game

Optimist Economy

Kathryn Anne Edwards and Robin Rauzi

Public Policy, Economics, Government, Economy

4.9 • 829 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

What sparks progress? The right political conditions? Social pressure? Economic upheaval? In response to two listeners’ questions, Kathryn Edwards says… both none of those and all of the above. (Also, "not a historian.") Still, as an example, we talk through just one bit of the New Deal in the 1930s, which was the law to limit child labor. That movement started decades earlier, and continued decades afterward. For those keeping score at home, this a sneaky third installment of Kathryn’s 68-part series on the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.

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0:00.0	Oh, what's there to be stressed out?
0:02.0	Have you read the news or you had your eyes open or you pay attention?
0:07.0	Like, what are you stressed about?
0:08.0	Humanity, people, our country, democracy.
0:11.0	Tell me when I get close.
0:13.0	Marco.
0:14.0	Polo.
0:23.6	Hello and welcome to Optimist Economy. I'm Catherine.
0:24.6	I'm Robin.
0:30.6	On this show, we believe the U.S. economy can be better, and we talk about how to get there, one problem and solution at a time. Well, we are going to start with a quick announcement.
0:41.4	Our show now has an official website, optimisteconomy.com, in which you can subscribe to the show,
0:49.5	in which you can donate to the show.
0:51.6	You can donate through our substack.
0:53.3	You can donate through Buy Me a Coffee.
0:55.1	And we've decided that we'd love money.
0:59.6	We'd love to have it to support the production of the show.
1:03.8	And in fact, it would be pretty useful in maintaining the show to have money for it.
1:09.6	All true.
1:10.3	All true.
1:10.7	And we're also hoping to turn
1:12.1	their website into a place for optimist to gather. Robin did something which I thought was really
1:18.7	inspired, which is she started a section, Letters to the Editor, where she publishes letters
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