Backstory: The Jobs Bill

The Leonard Lopate Show | Mar 15, 2012

On today’s Backstory, ProPublica’s Jesse Eisinger talks about what’s inside a jobs bill-- The Jump-Start Our Business Act --that just passed in the House of Representatives. We’ll also look at how the Federal Reserve has dealt with the country’s largest financial firms.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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