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I'm not involved with the house rules and any of that. if they play politics with the needs of america, i can tell you, america will recoil. >> they say you're playing politics. >> i don't think so. bottom line is, if it's such good politics and they think $3.5 trillion, why are they rushing it? >> let's talk about what's in it. let's talk about some of the specifics. i want to get to the substance of what we're talking about here. i don't think that gets enough attention. >> sure. >> what president biden and the democrats say is, the child tax credit, which has been expanded. make it permanen...

>> they have to do what they have to do. i'm not involved with the house rules and any of that. they're going to do what they think is best. if they play politics with the needs of america, i can tell you, america will recoil. >> they say you're playing politics. >> i don't think so. bottom line is, if it's such good politics and they think $3.5 trillion, why are they rushing it? >> let's talk about the specifics. i want to get to the substance of what we're talking about here. i don't think that gets enough attention. >> sure. >> what president biden and the democrats say is, the child tax cr...

NOTE: This show was originally released on June 28, 2020 “The origin of the word strike goes back to the port of London in 1768, when dock workers and sailors struck. When sailors stop work, they take down the sails of their ship and that’s called, nautically, striking your sail. And that term becomes the de facto word for all work stoppages.” Peter Cole, professor of history at Western Illinois University and author of two books on dockworkers, Wobblies on the Waterfront and Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area, talks with Ben Blake and Alan Wier...

No, seriously? >> sounds like there's a catch. >> you don't have to pay it back? >> oh. >> sounds great. >> all right, so less than a month from today, united states begins one of the most potentially transformational social policy experiments it has ever tried. free money every month to help parents pay for the cost of raising children. called the child tax credit, but it's really a near universal basic income for parents. the government subsidizing about 90% of all households with children, so we're talking like, you know, poor, working poor, working class, middle class, upper middle class, ...

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