Newsmakers meet New Yorkers as host Brian Lehrer and his guests take on the issues dominating conversation in New York and around the world. This daily program from WNYC Studios cuts through the usual talk radio punditry and brings a smart, humane approach to the day's events and what matters most in local and national politics, our own communities and our lives. WNYC Studios is a listener-supported producer of other leading podcasts including Radiolab, On the Media, Death, Sex & Money, Nancy, and many others.
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30 Issues: How to Balance the Toll of the Virus and Economic Pain
Jim Tankersley, New York Times reporter covering economics and tax policy and author of The Riches of This Land: The Untold, True Story of America's Middle Class (PublicAffairs, 2020), talks about the Democratic and Republican approaches to threading the needle between controlling the virus and keeping the economy going.