Hard Times: A History Of Unemployment
President Barack Obama claims that the country’s low unemployment
rate shows that we’ve rebounded from the Great Recession. But
presidential candidates Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders say the
“real” unemployment rate is much higher. During this episode of
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BackStory is a weekly public podcast hosted by U.S. historians Ed Ayers, Brian Balogh, Nathan Connolly and Joanne Freeman. We're based in Charlottesville, Va. at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.
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President Barack Obama claims that the country’s low unemployment
rate shows that we’ve rebounded from the Great Recession. But
presidential candidates Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders say the
“real” unemployment rate is much higher. During this episode of
BackStory, the Guys will look at the invention of the official
unemployment rate, discuss the struggle among Baltimore’s working
classes in the early 19th century to find and keep work, and
uncover the hidden history of unemployment in the U.S.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
rate shows that we’ve rebounded from the Great Recession. But
presidential candidates Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders say the
“real” unemployment rate is much higher. During this episode of
BackStory, the Guys will look at the invention of the official
unemployment rate, discuss the struggle among Baltimore’s working
classes in the early 19th century to find and keep work, and
uncover the hidden history of unemployment in the U.S.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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