The Year Ahead

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
We look back at the triumphs and failures of the Great Depression-era WPA - and what we can learn from it now, during these current economic hard times. Plus: find out how numbers and statistics can be very misleading. Daphne Beal on her novel about modernization in Nepal. And, get some predictions for the world in 2009!

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